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RenewableCandy wrote:Best riposte I've heard is that one should substitute the question:

"Do you believe in Climate Change?"

with:

"Do you understand Climate Change?"
Yes, good one, must use that.

What do you reply when they say "yes"?
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"BBC apologises over interview with climate denier Lord Lawson"

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Too late, the damage is done.
a sensible Yorkshire person wrote:“I really thought the climate change debate had finished and that these voices of the very rich and well connected had lost relevance in the whole argument,� said Dr Tim Thornton, a recently retired GP from Yorkshire who made one of the complaints. “It’s fine that they don’t like the idea of climate change but they are on a par with flat-earthers.�

Thornton highlighted the claim that global temperatures had not risen: “Even a sixth-former would be able to tell you that wasn’t so. So the BBC interviewer, if they are talking about climate change, should have done a little bit of homework.�
Meow.
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Never had to ask, lucky me.
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