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What kind of human induced climate change deniers are there?

The ones i see are:

The world isn't warming.

The world is warming, but we aren't doing it. It's natural and there is no impending problem.

The world is warming, but we aren't doing it. It's natural and we should prepare for it.

The world is warming, we're doing it but it's a good thing.

Am I missing any?

I know there are subsets within, that either attack science, scientists, the methods scientists use or organizations that promote human induced climate change.

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  • 6 years ago
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    True scientists say global warming is a hoax.

    Global warming is a UN plot.

    Global warming is a Liberal plot

    Global warming is plot of communists such as Margaret Thatcher.

    I shoveled snow on my driveway yesterday, so global warming must be a hoax.

    The temperature drop by 20 degrees last night where I live, so global warming must be a hoax.

    I don't understand it, so nobody does, and anyone who claims differently is a Marxist.

    Going from 280 to 400 is only a 0.01% increase, so global warming can't be occurring.

  • JimZ
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    The only ones denying climates change are alarmists; or at least they denied it changed until evil humans and corporations came along. If you add any molecules or energy, it adds something but the real question is one of significance. Are our emissions causing catastrophic or harmful warming or is there a good chance that they will? If that answer is yes, which it isn't, then you would have to ask if proposed solutions would work and they wouldn't. Those trying to deny there is exaggeration of the evidence to push a leftist cause are the real deniers. They are in fact delusional.

    Baccheous either suggests he knows things he doesn't or suggests his ignorance amounts to evidence. It doesn't. I don't know how much our CO2 affects climate and neither does anyone else. Ignorance is not a theory but it's all alarmists got. Just once I would like them to admit their ignorance. That is the actual first step in science. Anything else if religion.

  • 6 years ago

    I like Baccheus answer, it's good to see humor. And I'll use his list as a template revealing my mind as that of skeptic of dangerous AGW which needs mitigation right now.

    "It is a normal cycle", meaning that it has no cause, it happens by magic.

    -- "Normal cycles" most certainly do have a cause (or perhaps more accurately, some direct effect on the climate). And as pointed out in a later bullet, we probably don't know all of them, how they interact, and which ones are most dominant.

    "God would never do that to us."

    -- I am not religious. I would equivalently say "Al Gore would certainly do that to us."

    "Physics is a socialist plot."

    -- The mis-use of physics has been the heart of many differently plots. I've never been big on the socialist angle. My plot conspiracy surrounds wealth and power.

    "There was never global warming until Al Gore made it up."

    -- Al Gore made up a lot of this but this statement is essentially true.

    "The coming solar minimum will make it all go away."

    -- Well it will likely at least put a dent in it. Let's hope that combined with the negative PDO and now turning negative AMO don't make that dent go south. That wouldn't be good for nobody.

    "Because there is more to learn, nobody knows nothing."

    -- This is essentially true although I deplore double negatives.

    "Real scientific debate about climate sensitivity proves that there are no greenhouse gases."

    -- This is grade 2 level climate science.

    "400 ppm is a little number and little numbers never affect anything."

    -- Well it is true the we are exposed to very small concentrations of what could be considered toxins daily like mercury, arsenic, etc. However, there comes a point where the concentration will become a problem even if still relatively small. For CO2, I don't know.

    "My ignorance of evidence is proof that there is no evidence."

    -- Or from the alarmist point of view: "My knowledge of the existence of evidence is all the proof I need." (That and the fact all the authorities tell me so.)

    "It's clouds that caused the warming" (Roy Spencer); "It's clouds that will stop the warming" (Richard Lindzen)

    -- That's actually quite clever. Bravo.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Whether or not human-induced climate change is 100% or 0.001% doesn't matter to the EXTREMISTS. Just as long as they have an "opportunity" to control most all of human behavior through Government enforcement (Nazi-Germany-style), then "Global Warming/Climate Change" is a great idea to them. It's a perfect socialistic/communistic scenario and totally eliminates Capitalism. It's the greatest human controlled power grab in the history of the world and worse than what Adolph Hitler or even the Roman Empire pulled off.

    The only REAL change to our atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution began is 0.012%, but they act as if this will cause incredible damage. They constantly use every day weather occurrences to make their point. It's always been a NAZI-style take over. Lots of political arm twisting.

    Why would the "alarmist" scientists care? Most all of the "alarmist" scientists are already Government "sponsored" and get most of their research $$$ through Government grants.

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  • 6 years ago

    There's no such thing as a static climate, the climate changes all the time. If the climate isn't cooling, then the climate is warming. If the climate isn't warming, then it's cooling. This is natural, and man has nothing to do with this. A scant 0.012% increase in co2 is too small to be effective to change anything one way or another.

  • 6 years ago

    How about, it is in its normal cycle and the greenies don't know if it is warming or cooling or staying the same. They are just hoping for a calamity so they sock it to the good people.

  • 6 years ago

    Global warming, the female orgasm and other liberal myths.

  • 6 years ago

    Oh you forgot:

    "It is a normal cycle", meaning that it has no cause, it happens by magic.

    "God would never do that to us."

    "Physics is a socialist plot."

    "There was never global warming until Al Gore made it up."

    "The coming solar minimum will make it all go away."

    "Because there is more to learn, nobody knows nothing."

    "Real scientific debate about climate sensitivity proves that there are no greenhouse gases."

    "400 ppm is a little number and little numbers never affect anything."

    "My ignorance of evidence is proof that there is no evidence."

    "It's clouds that caused the warming" (Roy Spencer); "It's clouds that will stop the warming" (Richard Lindzen)

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