Global warming is a fact, and there’s no denying the fact that humankind’s poor decisions are to blame. The problem, aside from global warming, is denial about global warming, and this is reaching alarming levels. This is because Donald Trump and his supporters have been allowed to freely spread lies in the media—that is, false information about this fact. As we know, the media can function as propaganda, something media mogul Rupert Murdoch is well aware of. This has allowed him to spread a message that deviates from real scientific data.
Data: the end of the last ice age around 11,700 years ago marked the beginning of the modern climate era and human civilization
The climate has changed quite drastically in recent years. Not in recent years, but certainly in terms of Earth’s evolution and the time humans have been on the planet. In the last 800,000 years alone, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, and the end of the last ice age around 11,700 years ago marked the beginning of the modern climate era and human civilization. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “Since systematic scientific assessments began in the 1970s, the influence of human activity on the warming of the climate system has evolved from theory to established fact.”
The current warming trend is different because it is clearly the result of human activities since the mid-19th century
NASA explains this by referring to the data we currently have. The current warming trend is different because it is clearly the result of human activities since the mid-19th century and is advancing at a rate not seen in many recent millennia. Earth’s temperature has risen by an average of 0.11° Fahrenheit (0.06° Celsius) per decade since 1850; 2024 was the warmest year since global records began in 1850; the 10 warmest years in the historical record have all occurred in the past decade (2015–2024). It is undeniable that human activities have produced the atmospheric gases that have trapped more of the Sun’s energy in the Earth system.
Additional energy has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land and rapid and widespread changes have occurred in the atmosphere
Many of the scientific instruments NASA uses to study our climate focus on how gases affect the movement of infrared radiation through the atmosphere. Despite the facts from Climate.gov, over 170 million people believe that climate change will have no effect on them in their lifetime. The fact is that the additional energy has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land, and rapid and widespread changes have occurred in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and biosphere.
“Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults are concerned about global warming or climate change, with 61% worrying about it “a great deal” (40%)”
The data, on the other hand, from those who ‘believe’ in global warming goes like this. A report from Gallup says: “Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults are concerned about global warming or climate change, with 61% worrying about it “a great deal” (40%) or “a fair amount” (21%). Separately, nearly half of Americans (45%) believe global warming will pose a serious threat to themselves or their way of life in their lifetime.”
Facts: the Earth’s core is getting hotter, glaciers are melting, and summers are obviously getting hotter
The reality is that the oceans are warming, the Earth’s core is getting hotter, glaciers are melting, and summers are obviously getting hotter. The ocean has absorbed much of this increased heat, and the top 100 meters (about 328 feet) of the ocean show a warming of more than 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.33 degrees Celsius) since 1969. Earth stores 90% of the additional energy in the ocean.
