RE: Climate change is a scam9 Nov 2025 09:14
It's strange to read this climate discussion and see people talking about scams and whatnot. Most researchers aren’t that interested in money, other than getting funding to keep doing their work. Their main goal is to try and figure out what is happening, and it’s normal that they keep learning as they go.
The argument about changing from “global warming” to “climate change” is a non-argument because they are two different things. Global warming is one aspect of climate change, while climate change is broader and also includes local cooling, changes in weather patterns, and biodiversity. The reason the terminology changed in the media is that scientists realized the problem is much more complex than just global warming, it affects the entire climate system and ecosystems.
Furthermore, the point that global temperature always fluctuates and that it’s “normal” disregards the biggest issue with climate change today: the speed of the change. Normally, it took centuries or millennia for global temperatures to shift by multiple degrees, and now it’s happening within decades. The only times such rapid changes occurred were during catastrophic events, like massive volcanic eruptions or huge meteor strikes, and these rapid changes always coincided with mass extinctions, not increases in biodiversity. Increases in biodiversity only occurred during slower warming periods.
Almost all scientists agree that the only way this speed of climate change is possible is due to human influence. This doesn’t mean they agree on every detail, but they do agree on the main mechanism. Moreover, this research is done by scientists from all over the world, working at many different institutes and publishing a broad range of findings. Most have the freedom to do independent research, and before any work is published it is peer-reviewed by other researchers from other institutions and countries. Saying that all of this is one big global scam just doesn’t make sense.
Science is never 100% certain, it’s about the best available evidence, and right now, all that evidence points toward human influence being dominant. Of course, there are natural factors that compound the effect, but those alone simply cannot explain the speed of the change we’re seeing today.
I’m aware that some might think I’m “woke,” but all I’m interested in is understanding reality as accurately as possible, and I’m always open to learning more. We’re all invested here in an oil stock, and personally, I expect that we will need oil longer than some predict. Also, the windfall tax in the UK is just rediculous and very damaging. I’d just much rather invest in an oil company in the Falklands than somewhere else.
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