"Climate change is a hoax"

Question

The article "The HOAX of Climate Change" calls it a political scam. Some scientists avoided the data and tried to shut down opposing views, referencing the 2009 "Climategate" controversy. It also said any warming we're seeing is just part of natural solar cycles and not because of human actions. Those claims are false because several investigations have exonerated the scientists behind those accusations, and temperature records from NASA and NOAA plainly show that the planet has been steadily warming, due mostly to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, not solar activity.

Comments

I agree with your response, however I am wondering where you got your information about the investigations that have exonerated these scientists? I would also argue that while there is validity and research to back the human-caused affects of climate change, there are also studies and evidence backing the Earth's cooling and warming cycles so that much at least may not entirely be untrue. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/hasnt-earth-warmed-and-cooled-naturally-throughout-history

Answer 1

The oceans have risen by over 4 inches since 1992, and this rise puts communities and ecosystems in jeopardy. The rise in heat causes the water to become warmer, disrupting sea life and causing extreme coral bleaching events. Increased absorption of CO2 makes the waters more acidic and thus threatens useful organisms such as shellfish and coral reefs. Warmer waters feed into stronger hurricanes that can do more damage to coastal areas. The ice is melting, which uncovers the darker water surfaces, and that can absorb more solar heat; the effect will amplify global warming. These measured changes in ocean conditions are but a glimpse of what is happening in the world due to climate change. Many renowned organizations, such as NASA, study the environment without having financial interests in the outcome. Decades ago, large fossil fuels companies, like ExxonMobil, also knew two decades in advance about the possible dangers of climate change and did absolutely nothing to reveal any information to the public. Climate change is real. It's driven by human activity, and it is having a significant impact on our planet, including vital ecosystems within all of our oceans.

Here are my links: source 1, source 2

Comments

I agree with your response that there is tangible scientific evidence to prove that climate change does exist. I also think that it's important that you touched on how organizations that are looking into climate change are not being paid to do so, giving them no financial gain or other benefit when letting the public know information. Although you linked your sources which is great, explaining them more in your response and what sources led to what parts of your response may be beneficial to the trustworthiness of what you have written.

Answer 2

Doing research and finding credible sources from other verified scientists shows that climate change is not a hoax. The strategy that this article used to try to prove that climate change is a hoax is tied to a scandal that played on a large audiences strong emotions. This article was posted in 2022 claiming that climate change ended in the '90s. Upon doing more research around this claim I found that there was a trend a few years ago of this theory and found an article from NOAA, "Did Global Warming Stop in 1998?", which questions this idea. The NOAA recognized that during 1998-2012 there was a decrease in the rate of global temperature rising, but that the overall temperature of the Earth is increasing. They also mentioned that the cycle of the sun fluctuates and this fluctuation can last for a decade or so and so during 1998-2012 it was a period of time where the temperature did decrease. When looking at the global temperature over the span of several decades it is clear to see the trend of the temperature consistently increasing, even with some variances. This article and the graphs prove that the claims made in the other article that climate change is a "hoax" are misleading.

Answer 3

This claim is false. This poster references the Royal Examiner article, The Hoax of “Climate Change”, which immediately shows a red banner at the top of the article stating “OPINION” (this should raise concern in reference to the lack of credibility of this source). The Royal Examiner article by C.J. Cook (who has been previously called out by fellow Royal Examiner author Waller Wilson in his article, Everyone Has a Right to Say What They Want for insufficient/lack of evidence) argues of this article is that “climate change” is a result of the sun and normal temperature fluctuations that cannot be traced back to humans. This is false. While climate change denial has grown into an increasingly popular conspiracy theory, there are copious amounts of evidence disproving the claim entirely. The most notable of this evidence comes from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA is a U.S. government run agency dedicated to scientific discovery and technological innovation on a planetary scale. NASA has collected data, proving climate change via satellite images (monitoring ice coverage and ice cap melting), carbon dioxide levels (in parts per million), global temperature (which has raised by about 1 degree Celcius since the late 19th century, largely attributed to carbon dioxide levels rising), sea temperature (raised by 0.33 degrees celsius since 1969), and more. (NASA, Evidence) This evidence has led to NASA’s claim of, “There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate. Human activity is the principal cause.” (NASA, Evidence). NASA reinforces this claim by quoting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "Since systematic scientific assessments began in the 1970s, the influence of human activity on the warming of the climate system has evolved from theory to established fact." “ (NASA, Evidence) While these claims have been widely disputed with the defense that the Earth’s climate is in a constant state of change, NASA clarifies that, “While Earth’s climate has changed throughout its history, the current warming is happening at a rate not seen in the past 10,000 years.” (NASA, Evidence). Thus leading to the evidence-based argument that climate change is, in fact, NOT a hoax.

articles: https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/

https://royalexaminer.com/everyone-has-the-right-to-say-what-they-want/

https://royalexaminer.com/the-hoax-of-climate-change/