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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne of my Facebook friends is mocking global warming.
Saying its 55 degrees so how can it be global warming and maybe its trump and russia or some such nonsense.
Tell me what to say to this idiot.
sinkingfeeling
(51,274 posts)science.
rurallib
(62,342 posts)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
LuvLoogie
(6,854 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,123 posts)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)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.
Calculating
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procon
(15,805 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)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........
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)Pholus
(4,062 posts)edhopper
(33,179 posts)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)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.