How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming

Talking to climate change deniers and skeptics can tricky. Here are handy responses to some of the most frequent arguments climate deniers use.
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Hansen wants the skeptics thrown in jail–Did James Hansen really want to try the climate skeptics?
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: In his June 23,…
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Was there another breathless announcement of another phony record, and another quiet retraction?
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: In October 2008, Al Gore’s science…
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‘Global warming comes from within’–Is heat at the Earth’s core the real cause of global warming?
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: We all live on a thin…
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Summer ice in the Arctic has recovered–Was the Arctic ice retreat a climate anomaly?
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: Sea ice at the north pole…
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Is the American Physical Society a crack in the climate change consensus?
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: The American Physical Society with…
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Is the IPCC so wrong their theories contradict a basic laws of physics?
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: The so called “Greenhouse Effect” which…
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In 2008, did temperatures drop as much as they rose over the whole 20th century?
(Part of the How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic guide) Objection: Temperatures plummeted over the last…
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Only if you ignore fossil fuel emissions
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The United States absorbs more…
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‘Climate change mitigation would lead to disaster’–Not really, but this may be lesser of two evils
(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The kind of drastic actions…