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Modern climate change is real, measurable, and primarily human-caused.

The Claim

Climate change is not real.

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The Short Version

Multiple independent measurements establish that Earth’s climate is changing. Temperature records, sea-level rise, ocean warming, and ice loss document the change, while attribution research shows that human greenhouse-gas emissions are the principal cause of recent warming. Evidence of natural climate shifts in the past reinforces, rather than refutes, the reality of climate change.

Caveats

  • Past natural climate variability does not disprove current human-driven warming.
  • Rejecting multiple independent measurements in favor of isolated evidence is cherry-picking.
  • Several listed consensus sources are duplicates or alternate versions, but the core evidence remains independently corroborated.

The Receipts

  1. Evidence - NASA Science

    science.nasa.gov

  2. The Effects of Climate Change

    science.nasa.gov

  3. State of the Global Climate 2025

    wmo.int

  4. State of the Climate Update for COP30

    wmo.int

  5. What evidence exists that Earth is warming and that humans ...

    climate.gov

  6. Chapter 3: Human Influence on the Climate System

    ipcc.ch

  7. IPCC AR6 Working Group 1: Summary for Policymakers | Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

    ipcc.ch

  8. IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

    doi.org

  9. IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    report.ipcc.ch

  10. Scientific Consensus

    science.nasa.gov

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climate change

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