How do you get a friend that tinks golbal warming is a scam and pepole are idots to think it's real to belive?

Question

She is my best friend and she think that global warming is fake, she says that it's the warming and cooling cycles. I think that's not very bright, but i want to try to get her to understand without losing her.

Answer 1

Well the first thing I would do is learn how to spell

"people"  

there is a spell checker built into Answers--- RIGHT click on any word with a red line under it-- several spelling choices will be shown.

Answer 2

Its tough to convince people that have such a strong ideological stance on something, even if you have facts.  Just keep bringing up the point that there is little scientific evidence showing that global warming is not attributed to human processes.  The hole in denier's arguments is using partial scientific arguments or just saying that it is a political.  Just ask her for evidence every time she makes a claim but you also need to provide evidence for yours.

Answer 3

Tell your friend global warming is being accelerated by abuses of modern civilization.  This problem knocked on our door in the early 60s---and has taken hold on today's society.

Go to your local TV news site.  Check out the U.S. radar loop that shows time lapse rain patterns.  Notice anything strange???  Normal rain squall lines are gone!!  In it's place, small patches of struggling rainshowers---and pretty much dry drought conditions elsewhere in the U.S.

And places getting rain---are getting it in epic freakish LARGE amounts.  Is it normal for one-third of Iowa to FLOOD?

On that same weather site---check out the current U.S. temperatures.  WOW---a LOT of bright orange and red there..EVERYWHERE.....and under NORMAL conditions---it shouldn't be THAT hot!!!  And it's the HEAT that's the enemy here.

Hurricane forecasters pay close attention to ocean surface temps---which have RISEN sharply.  Extreme hot water surface temps fuel hurricanes; the hotter the air---the more powerful the hurricane is.  Katrina was a Cat 3 monster when she blew into New Orleans.  Damage done 80 miles NORTH of New Orleans had residents there w/out power for nearly a month!!

Don't dismay if you fail to convince her right now--she'll have to find out later on her own----and she will in due time, trust me.  Right now, we need to adopt in our everyday lives the simple ways to effectively reduce these radical temperature changes.  We fixed the ozone layer hole---so reversing global warming CAN be done!!

Answer 4

It won't work no matter what you do. I have a friend who is exactly that way. They don't even know why they don't believe, they just don't. The media has led them to think that there is a 50-50 debate over whether mankind is causing it, and there is not.  They don't care what the science behind it is because they think there are equally valid points on both sides, not because there are, but because they have been led to believe this by misinformers. One good thing to do is ask why they don't believe the science. Whatever answer they give should be easily refuted. But even if you easily refute your friends answer, she won't believe you. She'll just think it's only an opinion, or that you made it up. It's quite sad. Just don't get too upset by it. There are many issues people do this with (evolution, religion etc...). It is called denialism, and facts hold no sway over these people.

Answer 5

people who do their own recearch, and do their own experiments, and apply logic to them aren't idiots. People who watch CNN are idiots.

Answer 6

Even if she can't produce facts to back up her beliefs, they are out there. Earth's tempurature has been shown to fluctuate throughout it's history, so nobody can prove global warming is due to people. I think it doesn't matter if it's because of us or not, we've been very irresponsible with what we've been given and need to shape up. If it's a natural cycle, we still need to shape up and take responsibility for the consequences that are ours, regardless of whether or not global warming is on that list.

Here, this one's a bit on the disrespectful side to me, but you get the drift.

http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.ph...

I think this seems better.

http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-w...

edit: Now hold on, I'm not saying it ISN'T true, I'm just saying it MIGHT not be true! Why is everyone answering so sure it isn't us? We can't know. I believe God gave us this planet to live on and care for. CARE FOR, not trash it! Even if global warming doesn't kill us, it's certainly poor stewardship.

jim z: Sorry I wasn't very clear, I mean we are to take responsibility for what we can. Whatever we're doing to the earth is pretty ugly. We should be watching our emissions and deforesting, etc. just because it's right. Our efforts to be cleaner should've been happening long before we thought we were killing our planet.

Answer 7

Your friend is right. Stop listening Al Gore and you will be ok too.

Answer 8

I think it is you that is stuck in the mud.  Open your eyes.  Don't fall for the hype.  Even if there is a little warming going on doesn't mean that humans are responsible.  Do you really believe that American prosperity is causing the worlds climate to shift.  Who has the more reasonable position?  I would say she does.  Even if it is someday proven that humans are responsible for a degree or two,  it is not realistic to view that as necessarily negative.  Those that insist that it is all bad are obviously pushing an agenda.  Isn't that obvious to you?  Use your common sense and I am sure you will agree.  

Note: Annie wants us to take responsibility even if we are not responsible.  Say WHAT?

Answer 9

it is a hoax!  why dont you listen to her?  if she thinks its a "scam" then she has facts to back it up.

Answer 10

Have her read the history of the earth and draw her attention to the ice age and those climatic changes and climatic changes that have occurred as evidenced by geological research.  Then you might review her reading and join her in her theories.

Answer 11

You shouldn’t try to change their mind, they are right.

If you use the same facts that other GW alarmist use on YA, they are faulty.

Answer 12

If shes your best friend and you dont want to lose her friendship over Global Warming  Just "agree to Disagree" and realise that you have your opinion and she has hers and niether will convince the other to change and go on with your lives

Answer 13

Introduce her to the Spanish Inquisition!  They will put her in the comfy chair and show her the cozy pillows!!  She will no longer be a heretic!!  Say to her "correct tinking will be rewarded and incorrect tinking will be punished."

http://masklinnscans.free.fr/4chan/Demot...

Answer 14

Yeah, your friend is the intelligent one sweetheart, there is nothing you can or should do to convince her that the truth is not true.  The Earth goes through periods of warming and cooling and has done so long before the human animal was on it.

As for the "proof" you can offer her, I can give you links to 900 websites that say Hillary Clinton and George Bush are shape-changing lizard aliens, doesn't make it true though does it.

This quote fits perfectly for this question:

"Kids who have yet to master spelling or basic math are in no position to dogmatize about scientific questions like global warming or nuclear power."

—Thomas Sowell

Answer 15

Drop your friend!  She is an Idiot!  Idiots make bad friends!

Answer 16

Your friend is smarter than you think.

If humans only contribute 2% of CO2 in the atmosphere, how are you going to stop Mother Nature from contributing the other 98%?

All this fashionable Green stuff is heading towards major taxation, so hang onto your wallet and vote against it.

Answer 17

Thinks, people, believe,   If you can spell those words you would have a better chance of convincing your friend that you are right.  P.S.  Global warming is a scam.  Al Gore lives in a twenty room plus eight bath energy guzzling mansion in Nashville, Tennessee.  Google Al Gore's House and see for yourself.

Answer 18

Do you know that you being on the computer contributes to global warming you should stop using so much energy if you believe in it so much stop producing so much carbon.

Answer 19

i like ur friends mind! u should listen to her, she actually has brains

Answer 20

Your friend is right. Respect her opinion.

Answer 21

Suggest watching "An inconvenient Truth."  She's basically saying that the dozens of scientists and Al Gore who received the Nobel Peace Prize for that movie received a WELL respected award for not having a point?  I doubt that she knows more than their decades of research.

On the friendship thing- You can disagree with someone on Global Warming and still be their friend.  

Global Warming is real and whether or not she calls it "Warming or Cooling Cycles" point out that Global Warming has become synonymous with the real name for what is going on which is "Climate Change."  So if she wants to argue that it doesn't matter that the climate is changing, perhaps she should be directed to and article on Reuters as far back as March 21st, 2006 which read "Humans are responsible for the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs and must make unprecedented extra efforts to reach a goal of slowing losses by 2010, a UN report has said."

Oh yeah- and I guess it doesn't matter that the world is going through such a "cycle" that we are killing off are arctic buddies the polar bear and that we will never see the return of it if the hot "cycle" continues because they will be dead before it gets a cold "cycle." (NYT May 15, 2008 reported Polar Bears being recognized by the US Federal Government as a threatened species.)

I can give you more facts if you would like.  Just message me.  

In short- your friend has a lot of audacity to basically claim that she knows more than decades of research by scientists, the decision makers for the Nobel Peace Prize awards, the entire US Federal Government, all the respected news sources in the USA, The UN, and the majority of the population in all developed nations.

Most important though is that the continuation of her belief and her spreading that belief to other people who ignorantly keep ruining the environment is far more detrimental long term than losing one friend.  Irregardless, if she is going to leave you because you disagree with her on one topic then she's not worth the time.

HOWEVER- As I stated before, I will give her some credit and say that the chances of her freaking out enough to end a friendship are slim to none.  So keep on preaching friend, we need more people like you.