Below is a listing of all the articles to be found in the "How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic" guide, presented as a handy one-stop shop for all the material you should need to rebut the more common anti-global warming science arguments constantly echoed across the internet.

In what I hope is an improvement on the original categorization, they have been divided and subdivided along 4 separate lines: Stages of Denial, Scientific Topics, Types of Argument, Levels of Sophistication. This should facilitate quick retrieval of specific entries. Individual articles will appear under multiple headings and may even appear in multiple subcategories in the same heading.

Please feel free to quote from, paraphrase, link to and otherwise use any or all of them in the best way possible to fight the good fight against mis- and dis- information where ever it appears! Email suggestions for new topics or links to more current scientific information to "a(dot)few(dot)things(dot)illconsidered(at)gmail(dot)com" or leave them in the comments.

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Stages of Denial

There's nothing happening

Inadequate Evidence

Contradictory Evidence

No Consensus

We Don't Know Why It's Happening

Models Don't Work

Prediction is Impossible

We Can't Be Sure

Prediction is Impossible

Climate Change is Natural

It Happened Before

It's Part of a Natural Change

It's Not Caused By CO2

Climate Change is Not Bad

The Effects are Good

The Effects are Minor

Change is Normal

Climate Change Can't be Stopped

Too Late

It's Someone Else's Problem

Economically Infeasible

Scientific Topics

Temperature

Atmosphere

Extreme Events

Temperature Records

Storms

Droughts

Cryosphere

Glaciers

Sea Ice

Ice Sheets

Oceans

Modeling

Scenarios

Uncertainties

Climate Forcings

Solar Influences

Greenhouse Gases

Aerosols

Paleo Climate

Holocene

Ice Ages

Geologic History

Scientific Process

Types of Argument

Uninformed

Misinformed

Cherry Picking

Urban Myths

FUD

Non Scientific

Underdog Theories

Crackpottery

Levels of Sophistication

Silly

Naive

Specious

Scientific

(this index can also be found at Gristmill



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