Bad Astronomy -
14 Feb 2016 16:15
One of the problems with debunking climate change deniers is that they reuse old, long-debunked claims over and over, even long after those claims are shown to be wrong. Marshall Shepherd, the 2013 president of the American Meteorological Society, called these "zombie ideas", rising from the dead to walk to the Earth again. It's an apt term... and whack-a-mole comes to mind as well*. Happily, there are tools at our disposal that help. One is Skeptical Science, my go-to for most basic debunking....
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