Because I can already hear the anti-man-made-climate-change crowd shrieking… how do we go about determining global temperatures thousands of years ago?
Yup, but if I’m talking to someone who doesn’t believe in man-made climate change and I show them the xkcd and answer their obvious follow-up question about how we know past temperature, and they STILL don’t want to listen to me… well then I know I can never talk to that person again. :)
Generally a good source for this use case. You can sort by popular arguments or arguments by type, and for many answers choose from different detail levels, sometimes even languages.
There is also that group that says it will get warmer naturally, by whatever solar flare etc bullshit ever. So business as usual, can’t change the course anyway so I will buy a second SUV
Because I can already hear the anti-man-made-climate-change crowd shrieking… how do we go about determining global temperatures thousands of years ago?
Edit: Stopped being lazy and googled it: https://gizmodo.com/how-do-scientists-know-what-the-temperature-was-thousan-1714597561
Very informative but you see, science doesn’t convince the anti-science crowd, pretty much by definition.
Yup, but if I’m talking to someone who doesn’t believe in man-made climate change and I show them the xkcd and answer their obvious follow-up question about how we know past temperature, and they STILL don’t want to listen to me… well then I know I can never talk to that person again. :)
Too bad the anti-science crowd are our elected officials. ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
https://skepticalscience.com/
Generally a good source for this use case. You can sort by popular arguments or arguments by type, and for many answers choose from different detail levels, sometimes even languages.
I didn’t find your specific question in their catalogue of answers, but they have a blog post about that topic: https://skepticalscience.com/two-centuries-climate-science-3.html
Centuries of applied critical thinking.
There is also that group that says it will get warmer naturally, by whatever solar flare etc bullshit ever. So business as usual, can’t change the course anyway so I will buy a second SUV
It’s good to ask the question.
The problem is when they refuse to accept the answer.