[Sherman Logan]

it is becoming increasingly apparent that the growing frequency and intensity of windstorms, floods, hurricanes and extremes of heat and cold is a consequence of higher levels of weather-system volatility related to a warming trend caused in part by human-generated carbon emissions

Let us assume, for purposes of discussion, that the first bolded section is indeed "a fact."

If it is, then the second bolded section is also probably a fact. But doesn't it make a rather dramatically critical difference whether the "in part" refers to 1% responsibility or 99%?

It is highly unlikely man has had NO impact on climate. It is also highly unlikely we are the primary factor.

[freebilly]

But doesn't it make a rather dramatically critical difference whether the "in part" refers to 1% responsibility or 99%?

Liberal guilt, New Age philosophy makes me 100% responsible for everything that happens in the Universe. Sucks to be guilty of everything. It's sorta like Judaism without God. Instead of atoning for your sins by sacrificing a ram or a calf or a couple of doves you get to sacrifice your commonsense, self-esteem and instinct for self-preservation....