Fact or Fiction?
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1 - We're all going to die!
2 - Global warming is a hoax.
3 - Efficiency is good.
4 - The apocalypse will arrive in 2030 (or 2100).
5 - You will decarbonize your life-style.
6 - Our pollution is changing the weather.
7 - We must save the planet.
8 - Atmospheric warming will decrease as soon as our polluting stops.
9 - The phrase "climate change" was promoted by a Republican strategist.
10 - No one's in charge.
1 - True; everyone dies someday.
2 - False; Mother Nature doesn't like pollution.
3 - Not necessarily. Energy efficiency improvements sometimes result in people using more energy afterward - which can cancel out the reduction of energy created by the efficiency improvement!
4 - False; the weather will worsen in fits and starts, but
there won't be one particular Apocalypse day.
5 - True; unless you die first. Everyone will, sooner or later.
6 - True; because all of us, together, make so much of it.
7 - False; the planet is a ball of rock spinning through space. Living creatures
are suffering and dying - that's who to save.
8 - False; due to the accumulation of past pollution, worldwide weather will
continue to worsen for many years.
9 - True; Frank Luntz thought "climate change" was less likely to scare people (into action) than "global warming".
10 - True; you are in charge as much as anyone else is.
Did you know?
Close to half of all emissions
since the industrial revolution
have been produced since 1990.
The Carbon Cycle -
for more on this go to:
(Diagram from U.S. DOE, Biological and Environmental Research Information System.)
1 - True; everyone dies someday.
2 - False; Mother Nature doesn't like pollution.
3 - Not necessarily; energy efficiency improvements can sometimes result in people using more energy -
(Jevons paradox) which can cancel out the reduction of energy created by the efficiency improvement!
4 - False; the weather will worsen in fits and starts, but there won't be one particular Apocalypse day.
5 - True; unless you die first. Everyone will, sooner or later.
6 - True; because all of us, together, make so much of it.
7 - False; the planet is a ball of rock spinning through space. It’s living creatures that suffer and die.
8 - False; due to the accumulation of past pollution worldwide weather will continue to warm for many years.
9 - True; Frank Luntz thought "climate change" was less likely to scare people (into action) than "global warming".
10 - True; you are in charge as much as anyone else is.