Nostrums and Remedies Against GW Deniers
Via Brad DeLong, Gristmill provides a long list answers to the usual denialist arguments. A sample:
Individual articles will appear under multiple headings and may even appear in multiple subcategories in the same heading.Stages of Denial
There's nothing happening
Inadequate evidence
- There is no evidence
- One record year is not global warming
- The temperature record is simply unreliable
- One hundred years is not enough
- Glaciers have always grown and receded
- Warming is due to the Urban Heat Island effect
- Mauna Loa is a volcano
- The scientists aren't even sure
Contradictory evidence
- It's cold today in Wagga Wagga
- Antarctic ice is growing
- The satellites show cooling
- What about mid-century cooling?
- Global warming stopped in 1998
- But the glaciers are not melting
- Antarctic sea ice is increasing
- Observations show climate sensitivity is not very high
- Sea level in the Arctic is falling
- Some sites show cooling
No consensus
There is much much more. All the answers to most of the silly and serious objections all your denialist friends are repeating. Not that they will pay any attention. At least until the wolf is at their personal doors.
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