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Made a video. Put it out there to the Facebook world with intent to turn the mind of a climate change skeptic away from Bullshit & Bad Intention. Towards Science, Reason & Fact. Responses varied amongst the still smallish collection of folks who’d responded thus far but there was one response which was exactly what I had defined as a solid gold victory for my efforts. One skeptic. One conversion. Take that, evildoers! Feels fuckin' good. You can feel it too.
Video I used is here. Check it out yourself. If either the video or the presentation of the information is such that it helps you convert others towards Science, Reason and Fact then Mazeltov. Do me a favor and let me know about it. And do the #YayOrNay thing at the end for me too. But you don’t gotta use the video. You can do it yourself, in the flesh and on the spot. Here’s how.
Step one: Who The Experts Are
See if they can get onboard for at least this much:
If they can accept step one, what's stopping them from accepting step two?
Step two: What the Experts Are Saying
The biggest, most widely respected collection of Climate Scientists are a group under the auspices of the United Nations, inartfully named the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" or the IPCC.
Yeah, so you're talking about the IPCC, otherwise known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reflecting the hard work from literally thousands of dedicated scientists from 195 countries around the world, Canada and the United States most certainly included. And what are they saying?
Okay fine, but what does "Peer Review" mean?
Okay but you said 97%. What about the other 3%?
If you've walked them through this far and they're still onboard with no objections to anything you've presented, then they now know all they need know regarding the science behind climate change. At this point they can now either trust the experts regarding this topic or they can try to identify some other massive collection of experts that would somehow have greater authority on Climate Science than the Climate Scientists. Because it's kind of a "#PutUpOrShutUp scenario. Ditto any conspiracy theory you choose to erect around these thousands of scientists from 195 countries. #PutUpOrShutUp. Because the adults are trying to have a conversation about what we do next.
This is TheGentYYC reporting to you LIVE from the front lines of the War on Information. Thanks, and have a GREAT day.
P.s. The only details I choose to release regarding my converted climate skeptic at this phase is that we once drunkenly howled "I Can't Wait To Feel Your Love Tonight" by Van Halen, laughing like pirates, late at night in the city of Vancouver.
P.p.s. If you're hip to the Twitter you can follow me here. I tend to follow back unless I suspect you are either boring or a robot.
P.p.p.s. You still here? Want to do me a favor? Go to Debateover.engaj.ca and take a stand:
Yay or Nay, won't take you a minute, thanks in advance.
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