You’re cooking brats outside on an unseasonably cool July 4th afternoon, and your crazy dittohead Uncle sidles up to you with a Miller High Life and a smirk – “So, we sure could use some global warming today…”
Whip our your cellphone and show him the screen shot from the NASA Climate home page. Invite him to peruse the site with Aunt Teabag.
A Public Service. You’re welcome. Enjoy your brats.
Your figures are extremely out of date. In a recent study by James Powell, over 99.9% of over 23,000 peer-reviewed global-warming papers support anthropogenic global warming. This is up from 97%.
Here’s an Independence Day beer-fueled poke in the eye that I just tweeted to the Vice Chairman of the House Science Committee: https://twitter.com/caerbannog666/status/617538330612240384
And you got the kind of reply one would expect from a science-ignorant Republican flack and Koch lapdog. He is supposedly a surfer—can we get him to visit the NC coast and tempt the overactive sharks there? (since he apparently won’t come close enough to the cave for you to rip his throat out).
If they want warmth, tell them to move to Alaska. I hear it’s warmer up there than down south these days. (not always, but often enough for some to notice)
Hotter today in Seattle than it is in Miami.
Tell NASA its 99.9% (but who is counting).
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-climate-change-deniers-got-it-very-wrong
Good link. And 99.9% is about 999% better sounding than 97%, since it translates to “virtually everyone”.
Some day the morons will have to realize that and be forced to stop talking about how “the science isn’t settled”.
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Are the numbers really going to convince anyone?
focus groups show that when people understand how strong the consensus is, they do tend to change their minds about climate change.
Polling also shows that agencies like NASA are still considered the most credible sources for science info on climate. So, while nothing is likely to change the confirmed dittohead denier – the average reasonable person is much more likely to be persuaded.
That’s encouraging, thank you. Let’s hope the average reasonable people can become the critical mass necessary to act against the deniers. Sites like this are useful and necessary to move that direction.