Climate Change is a leftwing government hoax

The argument

Climate change is a large scale hoax intended to mislead the public. Scientists, acting either willingly or unwillingly under the government, are faking their findings of changes to the Earth's environment. Scientists who find data to suggest against global warming or who express doubts about it are suppressed out of the peer-review process. The scientists who are able to publish their findings have their data manipulated to cultivate the climate change image. Scientists are pressured by the media and government to exaggerate and scare the public in order to receive a reaction. The governments of the world support this facade of climate change and use it as an instrument to exert power over the citizens of the world. People should not fall for the hoax of climate change because it was a conspiracy created by the government.

Premises

Counter-arguments

There is broad scientific consensus that climate change is real, confirmed worldwide by the most knowledgeable scientists in the field; the science is real data backed by the scientific method, not fake.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] Peer review rejects papers on method and evidence, and the record does not show the pattern claimed. Work revising sensitivity estimates downward, identifying errors in earlier reconstructions and disputing particular attributions has been published in the leading journals throughout, and the discipline's incentives run against suppression — overturning a consensus is the most career-defining result available in any science. [Rejecting P2] The premise requires a facade sustained across governments with directly opposed interests, including major oil and gas exporters whose revenues depend on the conclusion being false, and administrations that withdrew from climate agreements while their own agencies continued publishing the data. It also identifies no power actually exerted: commitments under the Paris framework are self-written, unenforced and exitable. [Rejecting P3] The conditional collapses because the evidence does not pass through the institutions named. Satellite records, ocean heat content, sea-level and ice-mass measurements, glacier retreat, and shifting species ranges and growing seasons are gathered by different agencies in different countries using independent instruments, and they agree. No mechanism is offered by which political pressure would produce the same result across all of them.

Framing

This argument assumes the belief that the scientific findings and studies supporting climate change are either fake or incorrect.