Hmmmmmm. That's very strange to me, but after all, they're your acquaintances, not mine, so I'll take your assessment of their intelligence as a given. Besides, I make an effort to treat folks online, until they prove otherwise, as reasonably intelligent, reasonably honest people -- willing and able to assimilate new facts into their world view or to adjust their world view to accommodate new facts, as logic dictates.
I don't personally know anybody like that (I know sensible people, but none of them are science deniers. ;-), but if I did, I would start with the laboratory proof that CO₂ is a greenhouse gas, as spelled out by Spencer Weart for the American Institute of Physics.
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After Callendar, Arrhenius, et al. showed that other things being equal, a gaseous mixture with more CO₂ will trap more heat, the next major milestone in the history of climatology, in the 1950s, conveniently also disproves the next major contemporary denier talking point, that water is such a strong greenhouse gas that the effect of CO₂ might be negligible. After reading that article, anybody with a baccalaureate or higher background in physics should understand that that argument is bunk, and for much more fundamental reasons than the time CO₂ and H₂O spend in the atmosphere.
Ultimately, everybody has to either deny basic physics, find or make up an alternate heatsink, or acknowledge the Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory. Or just lie.
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