I will concede, though, he came *close* when he asked Roberts to explain what method other than prediction can you use to forecast, which resulted in nothing (in the unedited clip).

Your method wouldn't have made a dent. He would have denied and continued to deny forever. His job is to engage you in animal noises while the world dies. Engaging him at all is an immediate loss-loss for you and humanity.

Agreed. There is the technical problem of creating the new energy technology and there is the political problem of getting those solutions into the marketplace. Both require "all hands on deck" approach at this point. Grunting at the monkeys is a distant third, some component of solving the political problem at best.

If you are reading this, and it matters to you, stop arguing with the trolls and paid shills and start working directly at the solutions. Ignore people like Malcolm Roberts, if at all possible. Time grows very short. History will only remember this, and what we did or did not do to stop it.

The senator is a Motivated Reasoner. He wants to believe something, so he's not going to change his mind no matter what you say or do. If you tell him something he'll say, "show me evidence." When you show him evidence he'll say, "that's a lie." The only reasonable course of action is to stop going after him, and start focusing on convincing the audience. Be the more reasonable one. Be nicer, be smarter, give the guy some rope to tangle himself up with, and whatever you do don't get mad.

The biggest problem with people like this is that their evidence isn't REAL evidence. So asking them for it wouldn't have gotten anyone anywhere. People like this will never budge, so I think the best thing to do is put all of the facts out there so that anyone watching or listening, who may be a bit impressionable, can come to the correct conclusion before it's too late.

You make it sound like the end of a Billy Jack movie, where some earnest hippie with sideburns speaks the Truth to the People from The Free School and Billy rides off into the sunset on his jeep. Deus ex machina.

For anyone that cares to reason, the facts are all readily available and have been since the pioneering work done at Exxon in the 70's. Facts may be stubborn things, but as Reagan wryly noted, they are also stupid.

If you're of this kind of mindset, perhaps you can help by establish truth and reconciliation committees to deal with the aftermath. I've heard they work very well in areas where the population is abused without usual recourse. Something is going to be needed, because we're well on the path to becoming Venus at this point.

"before it's too late."

Pretty sure we passed that line sometime around 1980, and the thing now should be damage control and trying to make the inevitable transition to a very different global way of life over the next generation or two as painless as possible.

I think you overestimate the rational capacity to reach deniers.

I honestly think he wasted his time having the debate if it was for any reason other than to entertain the choir.