How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic

Below is a complete listing of the articles in "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic," a series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by:

• Stages of Denial,
• Scientific Topics,
• Types of Argument, and
• Levels of Sophistication.

Individual articles will appear under multiple headings and may even appear in multiple subcategories in the same heading.

Stages of Denial

1. There's nothing happening
1. Inadequate evidence
• There is no evidence
• One record year is not global warming
• The temperature record is simply unreliable
• One hundred years is not enough
• Glaciers have always grown and receded
• Warming is due to the Urban Heat Island effect
• Mauna Loa is a volcano
• The scientists aren't even sure
2. Contradictory evidence
• It's cold today in Wagga Wagga
• Antarctic ice is growing
• The satellites show cooling
• What about mid-century cooling?
• Global warming stopped in 1998
• But the glaciers are not melting
• Antarctic sea ice is increasing
• Observations show climate sensitivity is not very high
• Sea level in the Arctic is falling
• Some sites show cooling
3. No consensus
• Global warming is a hoax
• There is no consensus
• Position statements hide debate
• Consensus is collusion
• Peiser refuted Oreskes

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