Is the sun causing climate change? Is more carbon dioxide good for plants? Is a snowstorm proof that there is no global warming? Are climatologists getting paid lots of money to promote extreme climate scenarios in the future (hah)? If you get questions about climate change from people who are uncertain or skeptical about it, you might be interested in watching this video, which explains how people misuse data or make false arguments to “prove” that global warming is not real. This video demonstrates 23 different techniques used to try to convince people that climate change is nothing to worry about, including straw man arguments, cherry picking, false equivalence, and many other. In fact, these techniques are used in many other areas of promoting fake science, including virus scares, fears about GMOs, and other issues. You can watch the 41-minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gecDy9wDuCs.
