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[76] [77] The programme's publicity materials claim that man-made global warming is "a lie" and "the biggest scam of modern times." [77] The film received strong criticism from many scientists and others. Journalist George Monbiot called it "the same old conspiracy theory that we've been hearing from the denial industry for the past ten years ...
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 ...
[6] [7] Independent reports said that the e-mails did not affect evidence that man made global warming is a real threat, and e-mails were being misrepresented to support unfounded claims of scientific misconduct, but there were disturbing suggestions that scientists had avoided sharing scientific data with sceptical critics. [8] [12]
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]
A website with ties to Turkish government-related organizations that denies the historical facts of the Armenian genocide. [83] [84] Fact-Checking Turkey factcheckingturkey.com Operated by PR company Bosphorus Global and counters criticism of Turkey in foreign media. It treats statements by Turkish government officials as arbiters of the truth.
Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has floated a bizarre claim in an attempt to discredit funding to fight the climate crisis – people during the ice age didn’t pay taxes to melt ...
Avoiding this future warming will require a large and rapid reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions. The ongoing warming will increase risks and stresses to human societies, economies, ecosystems, and wildlife through the 21st century and beyond, making it imperative that society respond to a changing climate.