How to talk to a climate change sceptic
We’ve been getting quite a few emails lately asking, indeed demanding, that we add a page to our website explaining the ‘other side of the argument’ with respect to climate change. Everyone knows a climate-change sceptic and sometimes their arguments seem to make some sense. Environmental news blog Gristmill have compiled a fantastic set of rebuttals to the major arguments posted by such sceptics in their How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic.
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:
When faced with a sceptical friend, family member or even drunk guy in a pub, I urge you to draw their attention to Gristmill.
Rather than wasting time trying to deny that humans are causing climate change, I challenge these sceptics to instead be part of a positive solution to what is now correctly regarded as the most important issue facing humanity to date. — DS
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