Depends on your goal. Do you want to sway opinion or do you want to prove you’re right? Two different things. Sometimes you can prove your case and lose the argument.
Especially when the argument on the other side isn’t honest.
Most lefties, even if you proved that man-caused global warming is a farce, would still want to implement the proposed solutions
because they believe we are using too much energy and polluting the planet, and this is a lever they can use to stop it.
I want to sway opinion and prove I’m right. The two are not mutually exclusive.