| Having dealt with deniers of global warming, who | | | | Claim: Hackers revealed that two scientists at UN |
| have in many cases been highly aggressive and | | | | were fudging data. |
| unprincipled, I have come up with a quick checklist | | | | Answer: That two people were doing their work |
| of what one needs to say if faced with a denier | | | | incompetently says nothing about a fact that was |
| of global warming. The following are responses to | | | | known long before these two people had anything |
| some of the claims I have heard. | | | | to do with it. and that is affirmed not only by |
| Claim: What's wrong with Siberia becoming 2 | | | | scientists who have nothing to do with UN but |
| degrees hotter? | | | | also by industry leaders who have opposed |
| Answer: Very small proportion of the world's | | | | environmental agenda for many decades. |
| population lives in cold climates, whereas billions live | | | | Claim: Scientists at UN have made up global |
| in hot climates. For vast portion of the world's | | | | warming to pursue global domination by a Satanic |
| population, global warming means floods, | | | | New World Order conspiracy. |
| hurricanes, destruction of cities and farmland, and | | | | Answer: Scientists knew about global warming |
| vast loss of life and property. | | | | since 1980s. The right-wing government of the |
| Claim: Some places in the world are having cold | | | | time wanted nothing to do with it, denying |
| spells. | | | | creation of clean-energy solutions that would have |
| Answer: Erratic weather events are very much a | | | | cheaply and easily solved the problem. Now, |
| predicted effect of the destabilization of climate | | | | solutions will be that much more difficult, and |
| accompanying global warming. Cross-world | | | | much irreversible damage has already been done. |
| averages show a consistent upward trend in the | | | | All thanks to the American Right that denied the |
| world's temperatures. | | | | truth in the first place and many of whose |
| Claim: Mammoths, termites, etc., have produced | | | | adherents are continuing to deny it now. |
| lots of methane | | | | Claim: God will fix this. |
| Answer: Nothing coming from mammoths or | | | | Answer: People created this problem, people must |
| termites begins to compare to the deadly | | | | solve this problem. It is not fair to ask God or |
| double-punch of uncontrolled carbon emissions and | | | | Gaia or any other agency to clean up our mess. |
| deforestation of rainforests that people have | | | | Claim: There is no global warming. These are the |
| been doing to cause global warming. | | | | end times. |
| Claim: Trees absorb carbon dioxide. | | | | Answer: People have choice as to what world to |
| Answer: Which is why raising carbon dioxide | | | | have, and for how long to have it. It is only the |
| emissions while cutting down the rainforest | | | | end times if you make these the end times by |
| creates carbon dioxide with no trees to absorb it. | | | | destroying life on earth. The stance of destroying |
| This carbon dioxide then goes into the oceans, | | | | the planet will not earn you any favor with God |
| where it makes them acidic and kills the fish, and | | | | or with any power with any concept of |
| into the atmosphere, where it reflects the sun's | | | | righteousness. And if you continue this stance, |
| rays bouncing off the earth's surface back to the | | | | you have everything to fear for your soul if the |
| earth, causing the earth to become hotter. | | | | end times ever are to arrive. |
| Claim: A small change in the gases in the | | | | Claim: Global warming is a giant hoax. |
| atmosphere cannot affect the climate. | | | | Answer: In fact, it is denial of global warming that |
| Answer: There are many factors that, if changed | | | | has been a vast hoax perpetrated by Republican |
| even a little, would not make possible for life or | | | | governments, Texas Oil, and conmen who deny |
| even universe to exist. The world is exquisitely | | | | the validity of science while benefiting from it daily |
| balanced and can be thrown off balance by very | | | | as does everyone in the West. This problem was |
| minor changes. And nothing is minor about the | | | | known in 1980s, and it should have been solved, |
| vast rise in emissions of carbon gases combined | | | | cheaply and easily, in 1980s, through creation of |
| with vast rainforest deforestation. | | | | high-intelligence, high-technology clean energy |
| Claim: Earth has been hotter and colder before. | | | | solutions. Instead it was denied, and now because |
| Answer: At no time in the past was there as | | | | it has been denied the world is facing great loss |
| much human population as there is now. The | | | | of life, great loss of property, and irreversible |
| heating of the world - along with disastrous erratic | | | | damage, none of which had to be if this problem |
| climate events brought on by global warming - will | | | | had not been denied and been acted upon when it |
| result, and already result, in vast loss of life and | | | | was discovered. |
| property, which the previous cycles did not. The | | | | Claim: It would be expensive to do anything about |
| accompanying acidification of the oceans and rising | | | | it / people would have to lose what they have. |
| of ocean waters compounds the problem. | | | | Answer: No, people would not have to lose what |
| Claim: Sun spot cycles are responsible for the | | | | they have. In fact, there are technically and |
| climate change. | | | | economically sound technologies that can provide |
| Answer: Sun spot cycles do not begin to explain | | | | all of people's present and much more energy and |
| why there is more CO2 in the atmosphere than in | | | | water needs through processes that are not |
| 800,000 years, nor do they begin to explain why | | | | destructive to the environment or are much less |
| oceans are turning to acid. Double-punch of | | | | destructive than current technologies. Some of |
| uncontrolled carbon emissions and rainforest | | | | these technologies carry vast economic benefit, |
| deforestation does. | | | | both short-term and long-term, along with their |
| Claim: Natural warming and cooling cycles are | | | | environmental benefit, while delivering greater |
| responsible for the climate change. | | | | convenience and utility than technologies of today. |
| Answer: As previous. | | | | And these technologies can be put into place by |
| Claim: People cannot affect something as vast as | | | | the private sector as easily as they can be put |
| planet Earth. | | | | into place by the government, resulting both in job |
| Answer: Yes they can. Amazon rainforest alone | | | | and prosperity growth in the present and |
| loses the area the size of Greece every six | | | | significant gains in efficiency over the long term. |
| years, and half the world's animal and plant | | | | Claim: You can talk the talk, what are you doing |
| species have been lost in the last two centuries. | | | | to walk the walk? |
| We are in the middle of the fastest extinction in | | | | Answer: Working with an inventor of a technically |
| the history of the planet, all due to human activity. | | | | and environmentally beneficial technology called |
| The same is true for global warming. | | | | the Hydrogen Transmission Network. |