How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic

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<Below is a complete listing of the articles in “How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic,” a series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by:

Stages of Denial,
Scientific Topics,
Types of Argument, and
Levels of Sophistication.
Individual articles will appear under multiple headings and may even appear in multiple subcategories in the same heading.>



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[BillZBubb]

1. The best approach is to avoid them like the plague. They are idiots.

Nothing is gained by talking to idiots.

[JonathanRackham]

2. I explain the carbon cycle.

I show them how the time loop keeps getting shorter and shorter and how much carbon has been liberated into the atmosphere as CO2. Chemistry is not required in high school any more and the college level stuff is really watered down.

[doc03]

3. One of them told me he can prove it is all bullshit. His proof, when he used to run a farm the

water never froze in the barn because of body heat. He doesn't deny climate change but that proves it is body heat that causes it. I don't know maybe his solution would be another world war who knows. We got to get rid of all these warm bodies somehow.

[hunter]

4. Acknowledging the catastrophe doesn't change anything.

If you own a car, fly on airplanes, use electricity and gas, post on the internet... buy solar panels, eat food, drink water... then you are part of the problem, same as everyone else.

It's just a matter of degree, measured directly by your own participation in the modern world economy.

People are now, today, getting smacked around hard by climate change and environmental degradation. If you're not hurting yet it's just a matter of time before the shit gets real for you too.

Most of us have jobs that are not making the world a better place, nor can we see any way to jump off this bus that's accelerating down the highway to hell.

What is now described as "economic productivity" is a direct measure of the damage we are doing to the earth's natural environment and our own human spirit.

[dembotoz]

5. I explain there is a online coarse on it thru edx which I took

Quite in depth went over tons and tons of evidence. I sat and listened to it all. I go on with the basic science is presented in a way a middle schooler can follow along. I conclude the evidence is overwhelming and perhaps they should take the study cause they are sadly and obviously misinformed