Fallacy literacy training 13/15

For our argument, we can say that:

Choice A: Premise 4 (implicit): “A drought is an example of natural climate change.”

Choice B: Climate change is a phenomenon caused by human activity (implicit).

Only one of the two choices can be true:

Conclusion: Only choice A can be true for the chosen case: ‘drought 4,000 years ago in Egypt.’ Therefore, we must conclude that B is false.

Notice how the argument sets up a false choice between natural climate changes and current climate changes caused by humans. It suggests that because there were natural climate events in the past, today’s climate change can’t be due to human actions. This ignores the possibility that both natural and human-caused climate changes can happen at the same time and be important.