Letter to the editor: Humans cause climate change - The Winchester Star
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Humans cause climate change
The following is in response to Bernard Swope’s Nov. 15 Open Forum on climate science.
He used his usual derogatory language to incorrectly claim that scientists don’t agree on climate change. One easy fact check is available from NASA at https://climate.nasa.gov. Click on “scientific consensus” at the bottom of the webpage, which states “scientists always focus on evidence not on opinions” and “scientific evidence continues to show that human activities (primarily the human burning of fossil fuels) have warmed the Earth’s surface and ocean basins.” This webpage also provides a list of “nearly 200 worldwide scientific organizations that hold the position that climate change has been caused by human action.”
So it comes down to which is easier to believe. That there is a worldwide conspiracy of scientists or a conspiracy of the fossil fuel industry to flood the system with climate change misinformation.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.