Posted on 07/24/2022 5:18:57 PM PDT by Ennis85
What can you do when the people closest to you believe climate change is a hoax?
It was during school pick-up a few years ago that Lance Lawson first asked his father about his views on global warming.
"He basically told me something along the lines of 'It's nonsense'," Lance recalls.
His dad spoke of unscrupulous politicians "fearmongering" for electoral gain. Climate change, he told Lance, was completely "overblown".
Lance, now 21, lives with his father, Brian Anderson, in the US state of Florida. He was just a teenager when that conversation happened, but it made a huge impression on him.
"My father is a very smart man," he says. "So I assumed that, if my father is telling me this, then it must be true."
But, as time went on, Lance started realising his father's views weren't backed by scientific evidence - and he decided to challenge him.
"Whenever he drove me to school, I would give my own argument, and he would downplay the evidence. It would force me to acquire new evidence, and that cycle helped expand my own understanding."
If someone close to you believes climate change is a hoax, you may find it hard to do what Lance did.
Maybe you fear confrontation, maybe you simply don't know how to explain the basic science of global warming.
But Gail Whiteman, professor of sustainability at the University of Exeter, says it's important to talk: "If we don't tackle climate denial and climate indifference, then the uphill battle to find a safer future is lost.
"We need to tackle our teachers, our neighbours... All of us have to become vessels for communication."
But how exactly do you go about starting the conversation?
Reciting the facts isn't always the answer
Sander van der Linden is professor of social psychology
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
"Well, when they frame an article out the outset with “denier” and “hoax” it’s obvious they think there is no debate to be had and that it’s just about “correcting the opinion” of someone who questions the narrative …"
“Reciting the facts isn’t always the answer.”
Because the left does not understand the concept of facts or science.
How to talk to a climate denier: Scream at them - call them a “racist” - demand they be banned in the public forum.
This is the only way we can promote tolerance. :)
Their model projections haven’t been right yet.
The anthropogenic part is still very small and the “benefits” of starving everyone are irresponsible. Eat your bugs, bozos.
I ❤ Climate Change.
1. Don’t address the fact that man made global warming doesn’t stand up to debate.
There it is.
Tell them you want to starve the folks in Sri Lanka.
“ALLEGED (man made) climate change. But the glaciers are vanishing. Yup, none in yosemite or central park any more. So, your point again?
If we ever get from 0.04% CO2 concentration to the super dangerous 0.05%, all of the oceans will instantly evaporate and the exposed basalt left exposed will become a sea of molten slag
All they have do to convince me of anthropogenic warming is to present to me a set of data which has enough data to encompass natural variation, say 100m years, and then show enough data since industrialization to show a positive bias with 3 sigma significance.
But they can’t because it doesn’t exist.
The mile high glacier over Chicago remains in remission.
The climate is not static and we can do nothing to change it.
CO2 has about twice as high in the time of the dinosaur than it is now.
Fossils of plants show they were huge compared to now.
Technically “green energy” would be increasing our CO2!!
“ Lance, now 21, lives with his father, Brian Anderson, in the US state of Florida.”
Lance’s dad: “When you know enough to get a job and get your own place to live maybe I’ll think you are smarter than me.”
It’s CAGW that’s the hoax.
It’s not catastrophic and it’s not Anthropogenic much.
When Disney Woke World becomes WaterWorld, let me know.
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