Single Point Cherry Picking (SPCP) – An tutorial on climate alarmism

There is one certain way to create climate skeptics:

Cherry pick one single data point, in the form of a photo – a polar bear swimming, the results of floods or storms in a city (use photoshop if you don't have something like that at hand), or maybe you standing on the sorry looking rest of a glacier, or something like that – and write a emotional article around it, write that world is ending due to human CO2 emissions, and end the article with "now you know".

If you don't have access to such imagery and can't create them yourself, don't fret! Simply wait for a news story about some random weather event (warm, cold, wet or dry weather, snow fall, storms, tornadoes, huricanes, or forrest fires – doesn't matter, just pick a random one) and claim that it is due to "dirty weather" and CO2 – simple as pie!

Don't worry, people on your side (the "climate consensus") will not call you out on your emotional hit-peace, and will ignore your utter disrespect of the scientific method (see the Corollary to Plait's Rules for reference). Play fast and loose! As long as you stay on message – human CO2 emission will cause an catastrophe  – nobody minds what exactly you write (at least nobody from your side!).

And if an skeptic shows up, call him an "idiot" or an "moron" in the comments – case closed. It is especially important to drive away all moderate skeptics, ignore their arguments, hit them over the head with simpleminded explanations, call them names, insult them and their intelligence – the result will be that only complete idiots and the most masochistic skeptics will stay to debate with you, proving your point that any skeptic who ventures onto your comment section is an complete idiot.

And except these few fools, you will make sure to be surrounded only by alarmist zealots who have the same flawed thinking about the climate as you do – isn't that nice?

If you feel a bit whiny, you can lament the misinformation by big oil, or say they are "so called" or "unconfirmed" or "self appointed" skeptics, but that is optional.

Now you can feel good that you did something "about the climate", and can safely ignore that you just firmly alienated one more skeptic with your unscientific fear-mongering.

And next week I will show you how to prove with one single image of the night sky, and the method of SPCP, that we live in a static universe (or you can prove the opposite, if you are so inclined).