alt Hacker NewsSeeing as it's so commonly misunderstood I wonder if "catastrophic climate variance" wouldn't have been a better term in hindsight.
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ajmurmann • today at 5:34 AM
I'm not sure a more complicated term would prevent people who don't want to understand the issue from finding new ways to not understand it.
People don't know what variance is.
Most people have an intuitive understanding of what an average is, but "distance from the average" is mystifying to them.