Here's a snarky reply, because I've laughed out loud upon reading your "they're on their way out" and the "we need stronger policies that cannot be swayed by public opinion" posted in one of responses.
>how you convince these people.
Four easy steps:
- show them the hockey stick graphs from models,
- show them the graphs from actual measurements,
- point out 2019 is colder than 2016, and probably than 2017, as per the article,
- point out the graph looks pretty close to a cluster of sine waves when watched at any scale
Congratulations, now they are convinced for life. You can celebrate that with them by watching the 2006 An Inconvenient Truth for all the beautiful animations.
Snark aside, the gist is: people who have been following news for some two decades or more don't generally get alarmed that easily.
> - point out the graph looks pretty close to a cluster of sine waves when watched at any scale
Is this some kind of backhanded admission that you will never admit global warming ever, whatever happens to the global temperature? Any graph can be arbitrarily closely approximated by a series of sine waves, that's the basic idea of Fourier Transformation.
>how you convince these people.
Four easy steps:
- show them the hockey stick graphs from models,
- show them the graphs from actual measurements,
- point out 2019 is colder than 2016, and probably than 2017, as per the article,
- point out the graph looks pretty close to a cluster of sine waves when watched at any scale
Congratulations, now they are convinced for life. You can celebrate that with them by watching the 2006 An Inconvenient Truth for all the beautiful animations.
Snark aside, the gist is: people who have been following news for some two decades or more don't generally get alarmed that easily.