climate skepticism: the top 10
Courtesy of BBC News, here are 10 snappy comebacks to idiotic global warming deniers.
Skeptic:
Since 1998 - almost a decade - the record, as determined by observations from satellites and balloon radiosondes, shows no warming.
Comeback:
1998 was an exceptionally warm year because of the strong El Nino event. Variability from year to year is expected, and picking a specific warm year to start an analysis is "cherry-picking"; if you picked 1997 or 1999 you would see a sharper rise. Even so, the linear trends since 1998 are still positive.
This reminds of a Scientific American article I've referenced more times than I can count: 15 answers to creationist nonsense.
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