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So a patient comes in with chest pain, and its determined to be noncardiac in origin, likely msk. 10 years later they come back, very similar chest pain. You’re tempted to say that this chest pain is likely their baseline, until you hear they’ve been drinking and smoking at an unprecedented level over the past 10 years.
Does this mean that the chest pain is insignificant because it has a precedent? No, because the patient has changed the environment that produced the chest pain drastically. So you can’t attribute the pain to be a normal variant until you investigate it. Right?
Your argument seems to be “Warming in the dark ages was almost certainly nonanthropogenic, therefore the current warming is also almost certainly not.” Do you honestly think that’s a logical conclusion?
