You can't say it's 99.5% due to global warming alone though. You can say 0.5% occurring by random chance but you can't just ascribe everything to one causal factor. Could be multi-factorial.
While the exact language in the quote is perhaps implying something, it only directly says the that the cause is warming during the industrial era. It doesn't provide any direct information about causal factors.
In the article: "So itβs 99.5% that it occurred due to warming over the industrial era," said Best.
I don't have a problem with them saying for example - "We believe that the river changed due to warming over the industrial era"
I don't really have a problem with anything they conclude to be honest, I was just answering another guy's question. Shitty of HN users to give me negative points over it. I feel like I'm on Reddit again.
That is possible. However in the abstract the author states
"Based on satellite image analysis and a signal-to-noise ratio as a metric of glacier retreat, we conclude
that this instance of river piracy was due to post-industrial climate change."
