I fully understand your point. I didn't find the comment rude or annoying personally. But there is a reality in that comment - my own brother pretty much echoed those words, calling me out for asking him to look at the data. Got pretty angry actually and called climate change "a carbon tax scam" and dismissed me as a fool and rational science as fake. I was genuinely shaken by that as it's not an anonymous internet comments spat, but your own flesh and blood - up close and personal.