Fool Me Once: Thorough – and devastating – explanations

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Those in search of clear, accessible explanations that debunk the latest denier talking points will be delighted to discover Wellesley College postdoc Alden Griffith and his website, Fool Me Once.

The siteโ€™s subtitle is perfect and perfectly accurate – โ€œWhat climate change deniers fear most: thorough explanationsโ€ – and Griffith provides two such explanations, so far. Theyโ€™re in the form of PowerPoint-style presentations with a voice-over and they categorically destroy the notion that (in Christopher Moncktonโ€™s mendacious phrase) โ€œArctic sea ice is just fineโ€ or that โ€œglobal warming has stopped.โ€ I only wish that I had wallet-sized copies of Griffithโ€™s graphs so I could flash them at annoying relatives who parrot these lines as if they have some validity.

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