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Hi dshen123!
If we filled in answer choice (B) with material from the stimulus that you suggested, we'd have something like, the meteorologist "fails to distinguish phenomena (luminosity and temperature) that exist independently of a particular system (climate) from phenomena (luminosity and temperature) that exist only as part of the system (climate)." It's not clear that the mentioned phenomena exist independently from the system--the sun's luminosity might, but at least as I understand it, the temperature is part of the climate. More to the point, it doesn't seem that the meteorologist is making a flaw by assuming that parts exist independently when they are really only parts of the system. Rather, the meteorologist is making an appeal to authority ("any professional meteorologist will tell you..."), when it is precisely that authority that the statistician challenges.
If we filled in answer choice (B) with material from the stimulus that you suggested, we'd have something like, the meteorologist "fails to distinguish phenomena (luminosity and temperature) that exist independently of a particular system (climate) from phenomena (luminosity and temperature) that exist only as part of the system (climate)." It's not clear that the mentioned phenomena exist independently from the system--the sun's luminosity might, but at least as I understand it, the temperature is part of the climate. More to the point, it doesn't seem that the meteorologist is making a flaw by assuming that parts exist independently when they are really only parts of the system. Rather, the meteorologist is making an appeal to authority ("any professional meteorologist will tell you..."), when it is precisely that authority that the statistician challenges.