Global Warming Conspiracy Theory

Global warming is the rising of earth's average ocean and atmospheric temperatures as a result of many human activities. The biggest contributors to global warming are the high amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that traps the heat received from the sun for many years, causing the earth to warm. Water vapor, Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous oxide, and Fluorinated gases make up the majority of these greenhouse gases. While they are also emitted naturally, it is because of human activities that they are proving to be dangerous. The warming of Earth has many consequences from the rising sea levels, ocean acidification, increased amounts of precipitation, droughts, and hurricanes. While many scientists are in agreement that the earth

They make up theories to dismiss global warming's dangers, either because it doesn't seem like the earth is warming or because they truly believe it was made up for someone's gain. Most of these theorists tend to look at short-term fluctuations that show short-term cooling instead of the long-term patterns as a basis for their conspiracy theories. One of these theories states that it is all a plan by a secret group of people to take down big oil companies by pushing for consumers to go with green energy alternatives. Another theory is that it's a fake story made for money by news companies who exaggerate global warming weather events as a way to increase viewership. Even current U.S. President Donald Trump theorizes that "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." (Donald J. Trump, Twitter). Yet it is impossible to disprove all the evidence scientists have gathered over the

Most of the people who think this are not differentiating weather, which is the status of the atmosphere at a certain time and place, from climate, which is the average of weather over a long period of time. Many also do not take into account that water vapor, which is more abundant in warmer weather, is fuel for snow in winter in the cooler northern areas. Meaning that even though the earth, in general, is warming it can still lead to heavy amounts of snowfall in areas where it is still