Comment by x86_64Ubuntu

We have to acknowledge the fact that the denialism concerning climate change extends from it being strongly linked politically. That's the reason we see so much effort in this thread concerning "valuing other opinions" or "people believed the earth was flat". Since the naysayers aren't interested in coming up with legitimate alternative models, the only refuge is to downplay "consensus" and fight to have uninformed individuals on the same level of discourse as the climatology community. So while the science is solid, you aren't going to get someone to believe something they are against from the onset.