Is it plausible that scientists are faking global warming?

No. For many reasons.

This would have to be the biggest conspiracy the world has ever seen, as well as the longest lasting. For 20 years, scientists all over the world have produced stdy after study supporting various aspects of global warming science. Unlike the skeptics theories they are all consistent with each other.

Scientific frauds are routinely exposed, and the guilty party's career ruined. To think that thousands of scientists would be so stupid as to try it is crazy.

Surely some "skeptic" would have been able to demonstrate the fraud by now.

Scientists uninvolved with global warming grants have validated the theory.

Most all the world's leaders would have had to be in on the conspiracy, since they support the view of the scientists.

This is a really crazy idea.

Not only plausible, but they actually are. Global warming is a complete hoax. The media lie about it. The current average annual temperature of the Earth is lower than the average has been for the last 10,000 years. When the UN stated in 2006 that global warming was a fact, they relied on a report from NASA. But the NASA scientist who wrote the report said that the UN removed two paragraphs from his report before they used it. The first removed paragraph said that there was no evidence that greenhouse gases were responsible for the climatic changes we were seeing. The second removed paragraph said that there was no evidence that human activity had anything to do with the levels of greenhouse gases we were seeing. In other words, that the human contribution to greenhouse gases is so small compared to natural processes as to be very likely to be insignificant. But the UN didn't like that, so they did what many organizations and people do when they have an agenda of their own. They lied, by omitting information that disproved what they were trying to say. And by doing so have done a profound disservice to the people of this planet.

The only scientists that are clearly "faking it" are the ones that are in the back pocket of heavy industry and the oil industries.

No reputable scientist thinks global warming is a hoax. To believe that is to believe in the tooth fairy. The evidence is clear and mounting by the day.

Now, how global warming will actually affect the planet is unclear because there are so many variables that we don't yet know. But to suggest that global warming is a hoax is, quite simply, wrong.

Science like everything else is a business where profits are key to survival. If the owner of a company wants to look good, he will send down some directive to the science division to pursue global warming research. A good example of this is within the oil industry. There is some good research here.

The culprits to global warming are mostly government hacks who see global warming as an excuse to raise taxes on intangibles, such as the amount of CO2 pushed by man into our atmosphere, vs. the effects it has on our environment. All the data is then put into a computer and simulations run. This is bogus, because we don’t know the total amount of water vapor that is in our atmosphere, so how can we be certain of the percentage of CO2 in the air. The sample is insufficient for creating a real data plot.

They are not faking it but they are blaming it on the wrong things like Co2 emmisions. Humans and other animals are only like 4% of Global warming it is a natural cycle.

I think instead of spending so much recourses on finding out more about something we have almost nothing to do with, we should spend more time into making our election make sense and improving our homefront and helping our soldiers in the MIddle East

What do you think it would take to have all countries in the world united and confirm this as a problem. I mean, a "worldwide conspiracy" including China and the U.S and all other countries just to raise taxes??? And nobody has been able to reveal this top secret conspiracy? How likely is this?

I can assure you that for example China doesn't want to raise carbon taxes and they don't want this to be an issue, because it will limit their future growth. Still, they don't deny the problem but are very concerned about it.

No, it is implausible. People get into science because of their ability and desire to discover what's true about the natural world. The worlds top climate scientists are in agreement that human CO2 emissions are causing global warming. People who have faith based agendas hate science because science almost never supports what they want to believe true.

Though I am not a proponent of the hype, I do not believe they are faking. Some are passionate about what they believe, so they will read the data differently then others. The media has created more hype over the issue and they did not present both sides. I still tend to believe that the majority of people are well intentioned even thought they may disagree.

I actually believe that they believe in it but they are very closed minded about it and won't listen to the opposition which flies in the face of science. Of course, they are getting paid by companies and governments that want global warming to be true so its also possible that they are just working for job security.

No,however the underlying causes and the exacerbating causes-and their extent may not be accurately understood.Data can always be shaped and re-shaped to fit a particular theory.

A good example of this is the debate during the 19th century and into the beginning of the 20th century over the age of the earth.Check it out it's quite astonishing.

Absolutely! Although, I don't think they are "faking it", I believe that they think they are right. For whatever reason, scientists like to think they have the answers. The bottom line is, it's just a theory. Did you know, for 2000 years people thought that all spiders had six legs. It wasn't until Lamarck(?) actually counted the legs on spiders that the theory was disproven.