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I'd take a different tack  Leaving the importance of science to
the next to last paragraph is where I differ with you. That
should be the first argument out of the box. Climate deniers are
in the same boat with creationists and anti-abortionists -- they
let belief do their thinking for them.  But trying to pry loose
the hold of belief is a difficult task. You can't do it with a
flood of facts, because the believer hangs on even more
desperately as the sea of facts threaten to inundate them. You
have to do it little by little, getting them to agree that
science is what is making their life better, not their belief
system (usually based on religion). Agricultural science is what
makes a bounteous harvest possible, be