[metmom]

I don’t know what to tell people who think that this record cold and snowfall is due to global warming.

I mean, if they understand that snow melts in warmer temperatures, you can talk to them and point out the errors involved with the whole global warming scam.

But with someone who is so deluded as to believe that the planet warming will result in colder temperatures and more snowfall, I just don’t know.

I really ought to formulate some response to that, but haven’t been able to figure out what to tell them without outright insulting them. How do you answer such stupidity and gullibility?

[Question Liberal Authority]

How do you answer such stupidity and gullibility?

A general rule of thumb is that you should never wrestle with a pig, because you'll get dirty and the pig might like it.

However, if you sense a glimmer of rationality, or you feel masochistic, you might argue along these lines:

If global warming causes cooler temperatures, then how can you measure it in the first place?

Presumably, the warmists are alarmed because they saw the average temperature of something increase over some period of time. But if warming causes cooling, then the average temperature would decrease. And if the average temperature decreases, then it's not really warming, is it?

However, I'm not sure it's worth it to argue at all. Even my brain is starting to hurt just contemplating this, and the logical vacuum is so strong, that I probably lost IQ points even giving it 5 seconds thought.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I think it’s best just to leave them in their deluded state and make sure they don’t impose their delusions upon the rest of society. If I could have them committed to a rubber room so much the better.

[Norseman]

>>I don’t know what to tell people who think that this record cold and snowfall is due to global warming....I really ought to formulate some response to that, but haven’t been able to figure out what to tell them without outright insulting them. How do you answer such stupidity and gullibility?<<

Maybe ask them to assume that in lieu of Global Warming, we assume instead that we are in a long-term period of Global Cooling. Would they then believe that the record snows and cold would be evidence that Global Cooling was NOT happening? After all, if record snow and cold are evidence of Global Warming, then they must also constitute evidence AGAINST Global Cooling.

If they stick with their assertion that they constitute Global Warming, they’ll look pretty ridiculous, but I guess they do anyway. And maybe that’s the best reaction of all: hysterical belittling laughter at the very suggestion. Some things are just stupid and need to be called stupid. The alternative is to contort ourselves into knots trying to use logic on impervious minds.