What a Pos
“There’s this old adage in climate science that you can’t attribute any one event to human causes,” Overpeck said. “That’s not really true anymore, because now it’s really been established that humans alter the whole global climate system. Anything related to increased warmth in the atmosphere likely has some element of human causation.”
The first half of that sentence is mostly true.
The trick is to link the two, when there is not clear causality. Sure, there is “some element of human causality”. But how much. If I burn oil, the air is heated a little bit. But it is such a tiny, ineffectual amount that the practical effect is negligible.
What he is trying to push is that humans neglibible effects on the climate are “causing” big problems. But that is almost certainly false. It is like saying a flood was caused by a tourist emptying a bottle of water into the Mississippi, or a that a person who lights a campfire in Wisconsin is responsible for tornadoes in Oklahoma.