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openspace4lifeI have no idea why I didn't post this link before now. I first learned about the website on August 9th, and I filed the knowledge away just in case it became useful to me someday, but of course it could come in handy for some of my readers as well.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/oneliners.php
This webpage has simple rebuttals to 127 common arguments made by climate skeptics, and each one has a link to a more thorough response (or sometimes more than one, at various levels of detail) that cites relevant scientific results. It's really quite impressive, and might just be enough to snap an intellectually honest skeptic out of his/her perfectly natural denial about this immense and nearly unsolvable global crisis.
Now, I did write in a recent entry about how even climate deniers should be able to support a sustainability agenda for other reasons, but this analysis neglected two key points. For one thing, climate denial is often based partly in a political ideology that militates against any policy plan progressives support, especially when it includes government meddling in the economy. Also, none of the other crises listed in that entry have the psychological impact of global warming in terms of motivating urgent and drastic action (although some of them probably should).
http://www.skepticalscience.com/oneliners.php
This webpage has simple rebuttals to 127 common arguments made by climate skeptics, and each one has a link to a more thorough response (or sometimes more than one, at various levels of detail) that cites relevant scientific results. It's really quite impressive, and might just be enough to snap an intellectually honest skeptic out of his/her perfectly natural denial about this immense and nearly unsolvable global crisis.
Now, I did write in a recent entry about how even climate deniers should be able to support a sustainability agenda for other reasons, but this analysis neglected two key points. For one thing, climate denial is often based partly in a political ideology that militates against any policy plan progressives support, especially when it includes government meddling in the economy. Also, none of the other crises listed in that entry have the psychological impact of global warming in terms of motivating urgent and drastic action (although some of them probably should).
