Posted on 12/24/2014 11:45:57 AM PST by PROCON
Try to avoid making this face when dealing with a climate change skeptic this holiday. bark/flickr, CC BY By Will J Grant, Australian National University and Rod Lamberts, Australian National University
The end of the year is nigh and it’s a time for Christmas and New Year parties and gatherings. In the southern hemisphere that means barbecues and beaches. In the northern hemisphere it’s mulled wine and cozy fireplaces.
But for all of us, it probably means we’ll be subjected to at least one ranting, fact-free sermon by a Typical Climate Change Denier (TCCD).
You know the drill. Make an offhand remark about unusual weather, and five seconds later someone’s mouthing off about how the internet says that climate change is a bunch of rubbish.
So, when you’ve been cornered by your TCCD, what do you do?
As many have said before, disagreements like this aren’t resolved by barrages of facts and figures. But that doesn’t mean you just have to walk away.
Instead of providing you with yet another series of climate facts and figures (there are plenty of excellent examples of these already) we’ve listed 12 tips, strategies and tactics for you to try out when you next feel inclined to engage a TCCD head on.
Good luck! And remember – it’s a party, so you know, have fun with it.
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I have a perfectly rational reason for not believing in climate change: Al Gore lies like his livelihood depends on it.
Many of the facts thrown around by Climate Change Believers are bogus. If they support themselves with lies, how good is their argument?
Climate Change Believers hate science and data. They are intellectually vacuous and deficient in their logic circuits. Like all LIBs, they are mentally impaired. Have a Merry Christmas!
Cheers and good luck!The Conversation
“Will J Grant, Researcher / Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at Australian National University, owns shares in a science communication consultancy. He has received funding from the Department of Industry.
Rod Lamberts, Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science at Australian National University, has received funding from the ARC Linkage grant program.”
Shilling for “science” money.
Question: How may one be sure a “Climate Change Believer” is sitting upright?
Answer: Ascertain if it is drooling out of both sides of its mouth.
The article itself is full of incorrect info, such as the notorious 97% of scientists figure. It throws around ad-hominems like the so-called climate denier “thinks they know better than pretty much all of science”, when in reality very little of science agrees with AGW.
Anyone who’s challenged a Climate Alarmist knows that trying to turn them is usually frustrating and annoying. They are rarely part of the solution and probably never will be.
Socialism will use any trick of Satan to promote their goals.
It’s more frustrating to us on the “denier” side because we know about Science and they only have what the politician deem as “science”.
The BS about the “97% of Scientists” ignores the 31,000 Scientists that say AGW is a scam.
I always say that I not only ‘believe’ in Climate Change, I know it’s true. A mere 100,000 years or so ago North America was covered in glaciers and they’re now gone..
This statement usually shuts up the ‘believers’. Then I’ll ask, “Do you know what scares me more than Climate Change?” The answer to that is: The idea that the government can fix it. I usually ask them to name all the successful government endeavors, besides wars.
At this point they’ve usually surrendered and retreated...
Here’s a rather nice, fact-filled editorial from the Wall St. Journal that effectively debunks all the possible sources for the 97% figure. In reality, it’s somewhere between 0.4% and 1% of scientists who actually have an opinion on the subject, whereas many many more either have no opinion, or in the case of some 37,000+ chemists, physicists and scientists of related disciplines unequivocally state that AGW is false.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303480304579578462813553136
Exactly.
The very first question in these conversations should be “Do you know how much Algore makes from the climate change industry?”
I never have to deal with this. No one I associate with is so stupid and gullible as to believe the global warming BS.
Actually, it’s a mere 15,000 years ago, and the temps have risen dramatically since then. However, it’s not as warm this time around as it the last time; the numbers are inexact, but this actually looks, absent a big spike, to be the coolest interglacial out of the last four during this current ice age (you did know we’re still in one, right?).
Another good question is, “what, exactly, is the optimum temperature, then?”. One can also pass along the observation that right now CO2 concentration is so low that it’s close to being the growth-limiting factor for plant life. They’d be much happier with about twice as much as we currently have.
Will someone please tell me how CO2 increased 30 parts per million over the last 30 years is something to be concerned about? Seriously?
I call the whole thing ECO-PROFITEERING. Boy do leftists hate that term....
Now that gas is cheaper...I run my truck idling and turn on the heat while eating lunch. It’s for chilens.
I just start calling them global cooling deniers....
Shuts them up pretty quick....
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Tell me about it! Those AGW/climate change chanters are the most obtuse, fact-proof people you could choose to debate.
The weaker the science, the louder the predictions of impending doom.
If some Climate Liar starts mouthing off about Glowbull Warming or Climate Change dump a bucket of ice water on him or her. Tell them this is what it will feel like when the inevitable glacial period returns and like this bucket of ice water you’ll never see it coming. ;-)
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