# Facts won't change your mind about anything

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 19, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-wont-change-your-mind-about-anything/710293 "2015-01-19T17:29:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-wont-change-your-mind-about-anything/710293/53 "2015-01-21T04:28:00Z")

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> [@FXMastermind](#):
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> Based on experience, I am quite certain facts won’t make the slightest bit of difference, to somebody who has already decided on the truth.
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> The question is, if facts won’t matter, and opinions certainly won’t make any difference, then what will? Will anything matter?
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> Those questions are in the OP here. I mean, you have somebody claiming it’s time to abandon facts as a tool in the climate debate. Do you agree with that?

Okay, let’s try this. If your position is that facts matter to you, please identify for me one or two facts that you find supportive of the AGW argument.

I mean, surely not every fact argues against that position. Lacking the jaundiced eye of your counterparts, you must be in a good position to fairly evaluate each fact.

(I must admit to going into this exercise being a little dubious, because I’ve seen you introduce “it’s cold outside my house today” (essentially) as a fact supporting your position.)

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