Tagged with How To Talk To A Climate Skeptic 
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‘The CO2 rise is natural’—No skeptical argument has been more definitively disproven 12
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‘Natural emissions dwarf human emissions’—But emissions are only one side of the equation 5
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‘Climate is always changing’—That doesn’t mean it isn’t different today 5
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‘The null hypothesis says warming is natural’—An inappropriate test, and one that would fail anyway 4
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‘Volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans’—Not even close ... 31
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‘Mars and Pluto are warming too’—No they aren’t—and what if they were? 24
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‘Global warming is part of a natural cycle’—This idea is one short step above appealing to magic 39
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‘Vineland was full of grapes’—Or was it an early advertising campaign? 4
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‘The hockey stick is broken’—Well, no ... but who’s playing hockey anyway? 6
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Yes, the last ice age started thawing over 20,000 years ago, but that stopped a long time ago 5
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‘Greenland used to be green’—Don’t judge a book by its cover, much less a land by its name 23
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‘The Medieval Warm Period was just as warm as today’—Repeating this point does not make it true 216
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‘It was warmer during the Holocene Climatic Optimum’—This period was not global and not like today 4
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‘Hansen has been wrong before’—Maybe, but not about the climate! 13
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‘They predicted global cooling in the 70s’—But that didn’t even remotely resemble today’s consensus 29
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Understanding what is happening right under our noses does not require paleoclimate perfection 1
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‘Chaotic systems are not predictable’—Sure, but who says climate is chaotic? 13
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‘We can’t even predict the weather next week’—But weather is not climate 11
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‘Aerosols should mean more warming in the south’—More North. Hemisphere warming is well-understood 1
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‘Climate models are unproven’—Actually, GCM’s have many confirmed successes under their belts 13
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