Arguing in bad faith defined is asking family a question about climate change and within 30 seconds they've turned it into legitimising the biblical version of Noahs Ark.
My family aren't even religious in any way.
@arteteco My mistake was to ask a legitimate question when everyone elses goal is simply to have the last word.
@Sci I feel you, it sucks when honest questions are turned into a sterile rethorical battlefield (especially with such arguments).
If you have questions about climate change I'd be curious to hear them here, though!
@arteteco my question was if anyone knew how much solar exposure would have to be reduced to mitigate the warming effects of climate change.
The reply I got was that volcanoes put out more CO2 & ash than all of human activity ever, so human induced climate change isn't real.
What threw me is I thought that argument died like 15yrs ago & I can't recall why the idea was shown to be utterly flawed.
@arteteco I asked about climate change & solar exposure limits, they started talking about the flooding of the Mediterranean as an example of previous climate change (rationalising why current climate change may not be a concern - danger danger), I mentioned such huge but localised floods have been theorised as the origin of the biblical "great flood" myth, they come back with "those myths are all over the world though, so it must have been one event".