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CapitalB | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @d57a58eb your bias at work

You see clearly what it says.
You see something.

You conclude bullshit instead of the obvious. 
You will read this and conclude worse.

Look at the graph again. What does it say?
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0e656d1f | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @91f99226 it might but here is what I saw: in the 1920-1929 lots of dead from drought, nothing from floods, in the 1930s, the exact opposite. This suggests there was a decade of droughts followed by a decade of floods. Suggesting climate changes (without massive human pollution or CO2 production). This suggests todays outrage over climate change is bullshit.
Where did I go wrong? Genuinely asking.
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CapitalB | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @d57a58eb large scale infrastructure began then. 

Germany could have had a lot of drowned Germans but sicnce they prepared nobody died. We only see that preparedness works. We have no idea how much really the _climate_ changed. Since it is global it can be that the catastrophes are regional. This can also be an el Niño consequence e.g.