If climate deniers were as creative at solving problems as they are in making up "arguments", the world would be a better place.
In tourist brochures, our rural county is presented as a clean and serene place, ideal for hiking, dotted with small towns, and ruins of castles on dominating peaks. But the blogster calls life here "living in an outdoor power plant" because the county produces far more electricity than its residents and businesses use.
Take a drive in the dark to one of the peaks, if you can call them that, and if you chose well, you will be looking down on a sea of red flashing lights, a post industrial light show of sorts.
If you drive around by day, you will find some small hamlets not just visually subdued by windmills as high 600 feet, easily topping the highest cathedrals, but also exposed to the incessant swooshing noise of rotating blades.
Climate deniers, who generally are also highly critical of renewable energy, point to places like our county with ridicule and scorn. Then they typically launch into one or more of the 176 (current count) arguments against climate change.
While the responses collected with great effort on this web site make sense, the blogster does not always have the time and patience for a conversation. So, sometimes, a shift of argument is in order.
Mind you, we try very hard to always be nice and considerate but we are not perfect, so a less than nice argument over the question if climate change is caused by humans or not, might go as follows.
So, when you go for a hike in Death Valley, you don't take water?
That has nothing to do with it!
It does. You adapt to the environment, and the reason why the environment is the way it is is secondary.
Humans are not responsible for the climate in Death Valley!
Correct, but I didn't want to allege you'd do nothing to help victims of a car crash unless you were certain it was caused by humans.
Alternatively, there is a very nice version of an argument shift which has worked wonders with upset, grump individuals in other situations:
I'm sorry you are having a bad day.
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