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What are the conspiracy theories about climate change?
According to NASA, 97% of actively publishing climate scientists agree that climate change is caused by humans. However, there are groups of people who believe that climate change is a myth, a hoax by scientists and/or governments.
Climate change is a hoax by scientists
This position catalogues the conspiracy theory that climate change is a hoax invented by scientists. Proponents claim researchers exaggerate or fabricate warming to secure grant funding and to advance a political agenda. The view runs counter to the scientific consensus that warming is human-caused.
Climate change is natural and unharmful
This position catalogues the claim that climate change is natural and harmless rather than human-caused. Proponents argue the climate has always cycled naturally, and that carbon dioxide is too small a fraction of the atmosphere to drive global change. It runs counter to the scientific consensus.
Climate change is a hoax by large international groups for world government
This position catalogues the conspiracy theory that climate change is a hoax engineered by international bodies — notably the UN — as a pretext to seize totalitarian world government. The view is documented as its believers make it and runs counter to the scientific consensus.
Climate change is a hoax by 'eco' companies to make money
Climate Change is a defining issue of our time and its effects are likely to present some of the greatest environmental challenges faced by humans.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents us with empirical and objective scientific information and research, as opposed to theory or speculation.