I made the mistake of discussing climate change with a Deplorable online.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Me- I'm not a scientist but I know there is a consensus in the scientific community that the planet is warming and man's activities are contributing to it. The only debate is how quickly it is occurring, have we past the past the point of no return, and if we haven't what can we do to slow it.

Deplorable - Why isn't Florida under water ?

[cos dem]

1. Give it time. It's starting to happen.

[lapfog_1]

2. He should more to Miami beach... it is starting to drown

there are many "flood days" with NO RAIN in the last few days.

They are investing in raising the level of the streets and in massive pumping systems.

Florida, being made of mostly limestone, is not going to stop the rising ocean with any kind of sea wall.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. And they're stupid on purpose to tire you out and require infinite instruction..

they never got...bc they can't stand 'ler'nen'. Or they feign stupid. (lesser amount of the time.) Their ignorance is so collossal that you could type all day everyday, and they say stupid things just to delay and wait for your description. then, they would pick THAT apart avoiding the bigger point. That point being, Climate change is real and man has contributed. PERIOD. the time for debate was over on that about 1996.

[joshcryer]

4. The first step toward discussing things with a "denialist":

Don't discuss denialism with a denialist.

It's the same arguments creationists use.

Spent many a year, better part of a decade in the early 2010s, arguing with those idiots.

Was fun, but informative.

[world wide wally]

5. Just say what I always say to climate change deniers:

It doesn't matter what you "think"
In spite of what Guiliani says, truth IS truth.

[elleng]

6. I said 'The only debate is how quickly it is occurring.' Got it?

[brooklynite]

7. When you believe the world is 6,000 years old, you expect faster developments

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Good Catch!

The idea that things take hundreds, thousands, millions of years is lost on the willfully ignorant.

[lpbk2713]

8. I try to avoid arguing with mental inferiors.

It only brings you down to their level and it doesn't change anything.

[Doodley]

9. If you are in a forest that is on fire, you might only know when its too late to escape.

[GulfCoast66]

10. My dad taught me.

Never argue with an idiot...

They bring you to their level of intelligence and then beat you with experience.

[The Wielding Truth]

11. It is. Miami is raising roads to get above water. "As Waters Rise, Miami Beach Builds Higher "

As Waters Rise, Miami Beach Builds Higher
Send him this article
https://www.npr.org/2016/05/10/476071206/as-waters-rise-miami-beach-builds-higher-streets-and-political-willpower

[Girard442]

12. Can't you see that the Miami Beach pumps are there to pump water ONTO the streets?

That's to further the Climate Change hoax. Really, it all becomes so obvious once you stop taking those meds.

[The Wielding Truth]

18. Oh I see know. You are responding to the disbeleiver.

[onethatcares]

13. what I get on my local idiot site is

"the climate is always changing and back in Fred Flintstones day it wasn't the peddlemobiles that caused the warming so you can't prove it's being warmed by man". "Back in the day, the 70s, it was global cooling" "if Al Gore would stop riding around in his plane and inventing things like the interwebs it wouldn't be getting warmer". "The ice is getting deeper everywhere and the polar bears like the idea of warm water"

And that pretty much sums it up.

[Vinca]

15. Tell the deplorable to visit Miami during high tide. Preferably on the beach. LOL.

[LanternWaste]

16. Discussing science with a deplorable is almost as effective as teaching trigonometry to a bonobo

Rejection of the scientific method is the only sign I need to realize I'm talking to an idiot.

[The Wielding Truth]

19. "the bonobo (Pan paniscus) is man's closest living relative."

Together with the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), the bonobo (Pan paniscus) is man's closest living relative. arkive.org

Huh.... this explains a lot.

[dalton99a]

17. Doctor: "You have cancer". Deplorable: "You're wrong. Why am I not dead?"