Is the threat of Global Warming (now classed as Climate Change) a true threat or is it one big scam?

Sorry to nitpick your word choice, but it's hard to say anything is "inevitable." However, the odds are 99 to 1 that you'll get huge resistance to any claims about climate change you make. Why?

(1) For starters, American oil companies today are some of the world's largest & most profitable corporations, and they have billions of dollars -- maybe trillions-- invested in energy extraction technologies and distribution networks that will be obsolete -- and a big economic loss -- if society ever seriously curbs CO2 emissions. Some of these companies -- eg Exxon Mobil -- have therefore put millions of dollars into subsidizing "climate change denial" groups. And they have almost unlimited money to use to sway the mass media, Congress, the White House & half the schools in America into denying the reality of CO2-induced climate change, no matter what the evidence says.

(2) Besides the obvious economic interest that fossil fuel producers have in trash talking against genuine climate science, there's also the powerful ideological bias of a small group of highly educated scientists -- many refugees from Communism in the 1950s -- who hate the idea of climate change & government efforts to control it because any government effort to influence pollution violates their vision of pure "free market" economics. Historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, in "Merchants of Doubt," describe how this small group of fanatically anti-Communist, pro "free market" scientists has worked since the 1950s to distort the public debate not just on "global warming," but also regarding the obvious health risks of cigarette smoking -- ditto the risks of ozone layer loss caused by CFC emissions -- ditto the ecological dangers of certain kinds of pesticides, including DDT. As Oreskes & Conway report, the relatively few scientists doing this have extreme libertarian views and see almost any government regulation of industry, for any reason and in any form, as being "the road to serfdom" that will ultimately lead to a Communist tyranny that they've devoted much of their lives to fighting.

In the 1950s, they therefore defended even the tobacco industry against an overwhelming mass of evidence that tobacco smoking is bad for health, because they saw the tobacco firms as bastions of "free enterprise" menaced by State Control. Many of these same scientists, coincidentally, also received monetary payments from Big Tobacco for defending a deadly product. Some of them today are receiving ample financial rewards from the fossil fuel industry for doing the same thing.

But they're probably not ONLY swayed by money; they also seem to genuinely believe in the climate denier "cause" -- not for scientific reasons, but for powerful political & economic ones. I'm sure some of those people will find some kind of peer-reviewed article to debunk whatever mainstream climate science you cite. (3) Let's also not forget the "denialist" biases of tens of thousands of American working people -- many with kids to raise, and mortgages to pay off -- who depend on the oil, coal, natural gas & electric utilities for jobs & economic survival.

These people aren't scientifically trained, and many seem willing to trash-talk scientific research based on zero evidence, when it threatens their own personal interest -- but it's hard to blame them for this.

There are various other studies out there but for the most part it's pretty much accepted that Climate Change is occuring. However the thing to keep in mind is whether or not human effect on the environment even has as much of an impact as many studies claim. There are other studies that exist that show that human contribution to climate change is fairly small in the grand scheme of things (you can do this yourself simply by googling it).

For example there are too many other contributing factors such as solar flares, and just the earth naturally changing temperature (which yes has happened before and will happen again). I'm not saying that we shouldn't try, but climate change is inevitable whether you like it or not, and we may not be the main factor that is causing it.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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