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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It is crazy how people just brush the issue under the rug and shrug like they dont know anything. Ignorance is not bliss in this situation because we will all likely find out the hardest way that we screwed up and ignored the facts.

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