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Do you believe that climate change is real? And do you believe it is significantly influenced by humans?

Yes it's real. Yes humans significantly influence.

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Yes it's real. No humans don't.

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No it's not real.

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I know there are individuals on this website that argue that climate change isn't significantly influenced by humans, or that it doesn't exist at all. I'm curious what the consensus is. I believe climate change is real, and that it's significantly influenced by humans. Feel free to discuss and share your reasoning or whatever.

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  • We as humans didn't create climate change. Climate change have been happening for years. We just made it worse.

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    • Naaaaaaaah ozone layers are supposed to have missing chunks. Those are Gods glory holes

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    • Just an FYI, anyone who denies anthropogenic climate change usually doesn't understand basic chemistry, so their opinion means -blam!-all on the matter. Most people on this website aren't very well versed in the sciences, it follows that people tend to disagree with what they don't understand. Worse off, this also means that they'll be easily misled by statistics to believe something is true when it isn't.

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        One cannot deny that climate change is happening. I think we are partly responsible for it.

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        • Edited by Flee: 2/2/2017 11:08:04 AM
          Anyone who doubts the first option of the poll has a lot of reading to do and might as well be questioning whether gravity is real. [url=http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024/meta]A 2013 literature review[/url] analyzed over 4,000 published research papers on the causes of global warming. 97% of all these papers concluded that humans are causing global warming. [url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/11/climate_change_denial_why_don_t_they_publish_scientific_papers.html]A 2012 analysis[/url] of almost 14,000 scientific papers published over the course of 25 years found that only 0.1% of all these papers rejected that humans had an influence on climate change. [url=http://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf]The fifth version of the United Nations Intergovernmental Climate Panel[/url] did a review in 2014 of just about all recently available scientific findings in addition to evaluate research by its own members and concluded, without any doubt, that "human influence on climate change is real". [url=http://www.pnas.org/content/107/27/12107.full.pdf]A 2010 overview of research[/url] reviewed publication data of nearly 1,500 scientists and found that 97-98% of all regularly publishing climate researchers were clear in their findings that humans affect and influence climate change. [url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2009EO030002/abstract]A large poll of over 3,000 climate scientists[/url] found a near absolute consensus that climate change is influenced by human activity among those who research and specialize in climatology. [url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0270467616634958]A 2015 literature meta-analysis of studies[/url] that covered a staggering 25,000 recent scientific papers by 70,000 researchers found that only 4 authors disagreed with the notion of human-influenced climate change, meaning that literally 99.99% of all scientists researching climate changes in the last few years agree that humans definitely influence climate change. Just to let that sink in for a moment, this means that only [b]0.0058%[/b] of all recently published and peer-reviewed authors on the topic of global warming do NOT think that humans contribute to climate change. [url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/14/climate_change_another_study_shows_they_don_t_publish_actual_papers.html]Another literature review[/url] of the research done by nearly 10,000 scientists in 2012-2013 concluded that ONLY ONE SINGLE PERSON out of 10,000 researchers (or 0.01%) did not conclude that humans negatively influence climate change. Any person who at this point claims that there is some reason to assume that human behavior is not in one way or another contributing to the climate change we are seeing today, or who tries to push the narrative that there is somehow a balance in research between different findings is both ignorant and uneducated on the issue. We might not be able to accurately determine exactly how much humans have contributed to climate change, but I sincerely hope no one here is actually implying that there is still even the slightest sliver of doubt about whether humanity has negatively affected climate change.

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          • I believe that it is 100% natural but the actions of mankind has caused the process to speed up. That's why I'm not for trying to stop climate change ,I'm for trying to adapt to the changing world

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          • Science has proven Earth goes through warming and cooling phases. The problem with do humans drastically impact it is hard to say. It depends on whose studies you believe. There are good studies that suggest we do and there are good studies that suggest we don't. It kind of is similar to evolution vs creation debate as no side has a smoking gun. While we do have proof of evolution we still do not have the missing link. So as stated it just depends on who's science you follow as you can have an educated debate for either.

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            • Our technology is only recently advanced enough to observe global temperature. We only can guess based on eye witness accounts what it was like a hundred years ago. We are seeing a rise now, and it is concerning, but we don't actually have on record what will happen. "We are all gona die!" Is only a guess at this point.

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              • Is climate change real? yes Does humanity effect it? probably Do I believe the fearmongering tactics? no Do I really care about it? not really

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              • Not enough poll options.

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                • I believe the earth goes periods of natural warming and cooling. Do I think man is contributing to it? Not really, besides with all the production we have had over the years we would be late on trying to or correct it.

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                • Yes. Have you seen all of the hot air coming out of Trump's fat mouth???

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                • Nah China looks like that naturally

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                • [url=https://xkcd.com/1732/]Relevant XKCD.[/url]

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                • Trump defeated the Thresher Maw with a strong look.

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                  • Yes it's real yes we affect it. BUT there is nothing we can do about it unless we revert the entire planet back to the Middle Ages. And let's be real all you people that like to act self righteous about this sort of thing wouldn't survive that world for a month.

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                  • Edited by THUNDERCHILD: 2/1/2017 4:01:07 AM
                    I am not a climate scientist, so i'm gonna roll with whatever conclusion the vast majority them have come to. A person would need to have either an extremely poor education or an agenda to do otherwise.

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                  • Ahh, good. Finally there is a poll mostly populated by smart people!

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                    • Yes and yes because science

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                    • It's real. I don't think our contribution is that well known.

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                      • Yes, and I believe that humans significantly contribute to CC. I'm right-winged but I don't deny science.

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                      • Edited by Kamots: 1/31/2017 8:13:18 PM
                        It is my opinion that any effect of that nature is significant. Humanity being able to change anything about the world as a whole entity is scary.

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                        • People who deny climate change more than likely are not educated in that sense, and look to false media to give them their facts.

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                          • People who don't believe in climate change are the same as flat earthers.

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                            • I wonder who voted for not real [spoiler]It wasn't me[/spoiler]

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                            • I believe we somehow affect the climate yes

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