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Nothing. Just walk away. I don't understand why people would willingly engage in completely pointless arguments at all... it's a huge part of why I left Facebook and Reddit and come here now instead. People on there literally just to argue and pick fights with other people.
I don't care if it's my dad, my neighbour, or an old friend from school ... if they believe that, they believe that, and nothing I can say is going to change their mind - and it's not my place to change their mind.
If my son said that to me, yes, it is my place to make sure he is properly educated, so we'd go through some Wikipedia articles and/or watch a couple documentaries about it, so people who understand all of it a hell of a lot better than I do can explain it to him properly. I am not a climate scientist.