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One of my Facebook friends is mocking global warming. (Original Post) MariaCSR Sep 2018 OP
Don't ever get on an airplane. They obviously can't fly if there's no sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #1
Weather is not climate rurallib Sep 2018 #2
Tell him he's a fucking idiot. Tell him he better grow up or his kids will end up as stupid as he is LuvLoogie Sep 2018 #3
There are many things you could say ... VMA131Marine Sep 2018 #4
I usually talk about microwave ovens marylandblue Sep 2018 #5
You need to explain the difference between weather and climate to him Calculating Sep 2018 #6
He's dumber than a fifth grader. Just laugh at him and don't waste your time. nt procon Sep 2018 #7
Don't bother responding Sherman A1 Sep 2018 #8
Word up. MariaCSR Sep 2018 #9
Point them to the "Flat Earth" websites and let the hilarity ensue! ret5hd Sep 2018 #10
I wouldn't bother, but there is a good XKCD cartoon about it... Pholus Sep 2018 #11
Let it go edhopper Sep 2018 #12
/ This Snackshack Sep 2018 #13

rurallib

(62,342 posts)
2. Weather is not climate
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 06:12 PM
Sep 2018

ask what they think of the massive storms (including typhoons) that have been plastering the world.
And the droughts in the west
And the heat in Europe last summer

the trends are up, up, up

VMA131Marine

(4,123 posts)
4. There are many things you could say ...
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 06:15 PM
Sep 2018

But I suspect none will have an impact the on this kind of stupidity.

However, a point you should make is that Global Warming concerns global average temperature. That it is abnormally cold in one specific location is being offset by all the other places that are much warmer. It's an abstract concept, I know, which is why these people have difficulty understanding it.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
5. I usually talk about microwave ovens
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 06:16 PM
Sep 2018

Same physics. Your oven beams infrared radiation at food which absorbs the radiation to heat it up.

The earth radiates infrared radiation that the CO2 in the atmosphere absorbs to heat it up.

It is the Theory of Infrared Spectroscopy. It's a law of physics. The earth MUST heat up this way. If he thinks it isn't happening, the burden is on him to say what mechanism is cooling the earth exactly tp counteract the heating that MUST occur.

If it doesn't work, then your friend has been eating cold leftovers for the last 40 years.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
8. Don't bother responding
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 06:30 PM
Sep 2018

there is simply No Win in a Facebook exchange of this type. Perhaps Snooze him for 30 days or block the post or whatever, but don't engage. It's like wrestling a pig........

edhopper

(33,179 posts)
12. Let it go
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 06:51 PM
Sep 2018

FB is a bad place for political discussion. And this fool probably has some Koch funded study to show you are wrong.

You won't be able to convince him of anything.

I sometimes answer that I don't debate Creationist or Climate Change Deniers.

Snackshack

(2,540 posts)
13. / This
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 06:58 PM
Sep 2018

Just let it go by like a bad pitch.

As this point people who still deny this are so personally invested in the denial that they are never going to believe in reality.

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