[FrankR]

I have found that the best way to deal with the "global warming" crowd is to just laugh it off, make fun of them...that pisses them off more than reams of "scientific data".

After we had our first frost, I told a lib at work that I had to "scrape some of that global warming off my windshield this morning". Well, that got a laugh out of everyone there, and frustrated him so bad he went back to his office and sulked for half a day.

Later, I asked him why all of these recent "global warming conferences" were cancelled on account of snow". That ticked him off too.

To top off his day, I told him that "if it weren't for global warming, we'd still be in the great ice age". For four days he didn't even say 'good morning' after that.

Treat them like an adult trying to convince another adult that there is - in fact - a tooth fairy. Global warming is the old "the world will end tomorrow" of the 21st century.

The bottom line - if by some slim chance there is something to it, what are we to do about it? Are they telling me if every internal combustion engine and every farting cow on the plant were eradicated tomorrow that we wouldn't have global warming?

IF there is such a thing as global warming, what is the short-term cure? The long-term cure?

What it comes down to is these people are desciples of algore, with a 'chicken little' mentality, gracing us all with a warning of impending doom and gloom. They're the first on your block to know more than you about your future, and you should listen to them because they are enlightened liberals, and they know more than you.

(sarcasm machine off)

[Reeses]

a lib at work

Politics and religion are fun to talk about but are taboo at work. It really gets people upset then they are impossible to work with. I love FreeRepublic because it's birds of a feather, very different than a work place.

[rockrr]

"scrape some of that global warming off my windshield this morning"

Funny!

In an uber-liberal town like Seattle I get lots of opportunities to get in digs like yours. And you're spot on about it getting under their (transparently) thin skins.

I love it!

[reg45]

"if it weren't for global warming, we'd still be in the great ice age".

GW (global warming) actually undid the "snowball earth".

The end of Snowball earth

[poindexters brother]

I have found that the best way to deal with the "global warming" crowd is to just laugh it off, make fun of them...that pisses them off more than reams of "scientific data".

Roger that.

A friend of mine recently sent out an email talking about the "global warming crisis". I figured I couldn't let that stand so I sent him a reply refering him to the Michael Crichton essay "Aliens Cause Global Warming" here:

http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speeches/index.html

And to the website of Professor Richard Muller, Dept of Physics at UC Berkeley, which has several essays on this subject:

http://muller.lbl.gov/

I then added that "All I know is that 18,000 years ago most of the North American continent was covered with ice. Then those Neanderthals started driving their SUV's and here we are. :-)"

No response so far.