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So I was thinking this weekend that the chances for someone who currently denies the existence of AGW being convinced that they are wrong is pretty hopeless. I say this because what could possibly change their mind given this: NASA - Consensus Think about it seriously for a moment.....if 97% of climate scientists agree that humans are, in fact, at least partially responsible for climate change......what could possibly change their mind? 99% of scientists? 100%? I think thats doubtful. It seems that what we have is a situation where literally no scientific evidence can be presented to them which can affect change on their opinion. WTF

It's pretty simple for me. Alarmists have to do 3 things:

Be scientists. This means being objective and skeptical. Science is a method. A process that welcoms skepticism. Lying, conspiring and blackballing scientists for findings that are harmful to the "cause" (can't have causes in science). Right now climate science isn't very sciency. The phrase "the debate is settled" should never be uttered.

Stop being wrong. When all the models predict calamity and they are all wrong (on the side of alarmism, coincindentally) repeatedly... they lose credibility. To make it worse, each time they are wrong they get more certain that they are right. Failure humbles most people outside of climate science.

Stop moving the goal post. First it was global cooling that was going to lead to famine and pestilence, then global warming, then climate change (as opposed to climate contance?), now climate disruption or climate chaos. In short, everything is proof of global warming. If it's warm, cold, rainy, dry, stormy or sunny it's all because of global warming. Tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, thick Arctic ice, thin Artic ice, wars, terrorism, poverty, allergies...it's all at least as old as mankind, but now it's because of global warming. It is really a cause for pseudo-intellectual retards.

But you seem to be enjoying yourself, so carry on.