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[73] [74] They promote harmful conspiracy theories alleging that scientists and institutions involved in global warming research are part of a global scientific conspiracy or engaged in a manipulative hoax. [75] The Great Global Warming Swindle is a 2007 British polemical documentary film directed by Martin Durkin that denies the scientific ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 January 2025. 2009 controversy Climatic Research Unit email controversy Date 17 November 2009 Location Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia Also known as "Climate gate" Inquiries House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (UK) Independent Climate Change Email Review (UK ...
The controversies are, by now, mostly political rather than scientific: there is a scientific consensus that global warming is happening and is caused by human activity. [2] Public debates that also reflect scientific debate include estimates of how responsive the climate system might be to any given level of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity).
In 2003, as lobbying over the 1997 Kyoto Protocol intensified, efforts by the Bush administration to remove climate reconstructions from the first Environmental Protection Agency and Jim Inhofe's Senate speech claiming that man-made global warming is a hoax both drew on the Soon and Baliunas controversy. [17]
The Great Global Warming Swindle is a 2007 British polemical documentary film directed by Martin Durkin. The film denies the scientific consensus about the reality and causes of climate change, justifying this by suggesting that climatology is influenced by funding and political factors.
As reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), most of the observed global warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to human-produced emission of greenhouse gases and this warming will continue unabated if present anthropogenic emissions continue or, worse, expand without control.
Trump was asked about Sanders' attack the next day during a 'Fox & Friends' interview. He said his accusation against the Chinese was an obvious joke.
Although the Greening Earth Society was generally skeptical of the impact of climate change, it acknowledged some degree of global warming as real: "Fact #1. The rate of global warming during the past several decades has been about 0.18°C per decade". [29] Note that the actual increase in the global surface temperature during the 100 years ...