How NOT to Convince Someone That Climate Change is Real

For the third time in the last few years, Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, spoke at the festival on Friday. Naturally, his interactive discussion focused on addressing the climate crisis. The former vice president focused on the need to “punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science,'” said the Chicago Tribune.

Gore said forward-thinking investors are moving away from companies that invest in fossil fuels and towards companies investing in renewable energy. “We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap-and-trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon-emission limits. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.” (Ecowatch.com, 3/16/2015)

If you want to convince RedStateVT that man-made climate change is real...

...here are some things that you should not do or say:

Please do not insult us or call us names.  If we are "climate-deniers" then you are "climate-truthers."

Please do not threaten to punish us (see above). That just makes us dig in our heels.

Please do not tell us that the answer to climate change is a tax. How does that make sense? Plus we think Americans pay too much in taxes already.

Please do not announce that climate change is "settled science." You can't say "accepted science" either. We have studied the issue and come to a different conclusion.  Plenty of people, including many scientists, disagree with you.

Please do not blame oil companies. No one, including you can live one day without fossil fuels. Oil is legal. Thank God for oil.


...here are some things that you should do or explain:

Please explain Climategate. Remember when scientists were found to have been colluding on the "science" of climate change? We do. Please explain.

Please explain exactly how Federal and state grant money flows to scientists and others who believe in man-made climate change. Just how much does Bill McKibben pull in?

Please separate out what you believe to be man-made climate change from naturally occurring climate change. 

Please factually refute just one thing found on Climatedepot.com. 

Please tell Al Gore to shut up. Really, do you want this phony to be your spokesperson? By the way, please ask Al Gore how many millions of dollars he has personally made from ginning up this issue.