| Some people believe that the rather "heated" | | | | |
| issue of global warming is nothing more than | | | | Those who claim that global warming is a hoax |
| a hoax sprung on the American people, "The | | | | think that environmentalists that fight to |
| biggest hoax ever perpetrated on to mankind", | | | | expose human-caused global warming to the |
| some say. Those who believe that global | | | | public have another agenda in mind, although |
| warming is in fact nothing more than a hoax | | | | what sort of alternate agenda is not made |
| think that there are more natural cycles at | | | | very clear. They also claim that the oceans |
| work in the environment causing the heating | | | | are another significant source of greenhouse |
| of the earth, rather than man-made creations | | | | gases, as are trees. These organisms give off |
| such as air pollution. They believe that by | | | | compound gases such as methane which are |
| global warming dictating major policy | | | | major greenhouse contributors, as well as |
| mandates, it will send the country into a | | | | decaying vegetation giving off large amounts |
| deep economic recession or even depression. | | | | of methane gases. These supporters of the |
| | | | global warming hoax claim that human-caused |
| These believers of the Global Warming Hoax | | | | greenhouse gas emissions only account for 1% |
| also believe that recent research actually | | | | of the global emissions and that reducing |
| shows a great deal of proof that human-caused | | | | literally all human-caused greenhouse gas |
| global warming is more and more of a unlikely | | | | sources such as SUV's, would have absolutely |
| factor and claim that there is not enough | | | | no affect at all on the global mean |
| science to justify the Kyoto Accords and | | | | temperature. It would also supposedly reduce |
| other policies that's basis is tied in with | | | | global greenhouse gas emissions only by less |
| human-caused global warming. They also claim | | | | than 0.2%. |
| that global warming was much worse years and | | | | |
| years ago, before industrialization even | | | | The basic belief of these "hoax" fanatics is |
| began. | | | | that global warming is not human-caused and |
| | | | rather is just a natural part of the earth's |
| Regarding the melting of the polar icecaps, | | | | cycle that has fluctuated through out history |
| some who believe this elaborate hoax note | | | | and is not something to worry about. They |
| that while some of the polar icecaps are | | | | support their theories by examining global |
| melting, others are thickening, and that | | | | warming and greenhouse gas emissions over the |
| those who support the idea of human-caused | | | | course of history and claiming that it has |
| global warming are afraid to admit that. They | | | | been something that has gone up and down over |
| also blame the heating and cooling of the | | | | the course of the history of the earth and |
| earth's atmosphere on other, not human-caused | | | | that there are many more natural factors at |
| occurrences such as the eruption of a | | | | work rather than the popular belief that we |
| volcano. They claim that the amount of ash or | | | | are causing the rise in temperature on earth |
| dust in the earth's atmosphere can vary the | | | | by driving gas-guzzling SUV's and using |
| heating and cooling temperatures of the | | | | aerosol spray cans. While those who support |
| earth's atmosphere. They blame the ejections | | | | the hoax may have a small amount of |
| of large amounts of what environmentalists | | | | scientific data and theory, the mainstream |
| call "greenhouse gases" on the gases and | | | | belief that we are causing our own |
| compounds expelled from the eruptions of | | | | environmental problems has a heavier stack of |
| volcanoes, such as the famous eruption of Mt. | | | | statistical data and reasons. |
| St. Helens. | | | | |