Climate Change is a Hoax?
"Climate change is a liberal hoax to ruin America"
The Facts
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The actual conspiracy is fossil-fuel companies spending hundreds of millions to convince Americans that their own researchers are wrong. With oil companies spending $450 million on the 2024 elections alone, these massive campaigns have turned science into a culture war while discrediting their competitors in the fastest growing energy sector: renewables.
ExxonMobil’s internal documents from the 1970s accurately predicted today’s climate change, yet the company funded decades of public denial campaigns. Meanwhile, insurance companies are quietly raising rates and withdrawing from climate-vulnerable areas. The military is fortifying bases against sea-level rise, and even oil companies are engineering climate protections for their own facilities. The question isn’t whether climate change is real—it’s whether we’ll let corporate PR override our own observations and overwhelming scientific evidence.
The human tendency to resist uncomfortable truths isn’t about intelligence or values—it’s about psychology. But when the stakes are this high, we have to look past comfortable narratives.
The Details
The Science Speaks (And Has For Decades)
Major oil companies have employed climate scientists since the 1970s. Shell’s internal reports from 1988 warned that fossil fuel emissions would cause “significant changes in sea level, ocean currents, precipitation patterns, and regional temperature and weather.” NASA’s temperature data, independently confirmed by research groups worldwide, shows the last decade was the warmest in recorded history. Even traditionally conservative institutions like the National Academy of Sciences have issued unequivocal statements on human-caused climate change.
This isn’t a recent political position—it’s decades of consistent findings from scientists working for the very companies that now question their work publicly.
The Money Trail Reveals Strategy
The fossil fuel industry’s political spending dwarfs environmental groups by orders of magnitude, with companies like Chevron and BP funneling millions through “dark money” networks to influence elections. Leaked American Petroleum Institute strategy documents reveal coordinated efforts to fund local opposition to renewable energy projects while promoting “citizen” groups that are actually corporate fronts.
Meanwhile, renewable energy sectors employ over 3 million Americans and represent the fastest-growing energy job categories in traditionally oil-dependent states like Texas and Wyoming. The economic threat isn’t clean energy—it’s allowing climate disasters and oil dependence to drain American resources while profits flow to multinational corporations.
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
While questioning climate science in public, fossil fuel companies are quietly adapting their own operations for a rapidly warming world. Global mean sea level rose four inches between 1993 and 2023—and the rate is accelerating. Shell has raised its drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to account for projected sea-level rise, with their engineers stating “an estimated rise in water level, due to global warming, of 0.5 meters may be assumed.” BP includes climate change projections in all long-term planning documents.
The Pentagon has spent billions on climate-resilient infrastructure, and major banks increasingly factor climate risk into financial decisions. Republican politicians in Florida and North Carolina are implementing managed retreat policies for coastal communities, proving that climate impacts transcend political ideology when communities face real consequences.
This isn’t about changing your entire worldview overnight. It’s about recognizing when powerful interests benefit from keeping us divided on issues where the evidence overwhelmingly points in one clear direction.
Sources
Note that some of these are government links and may be removed by the current administration at will.
- https://www.climatefiles.com/
- https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition
- https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Other/22-F-1350_Climate_Action_Plan_01.pdf
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/timeline-the-politics-of-climate-change/
- https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions
- https://govfacts.org/federal/defense/the-pentagons-climate-strategy-past-priorities-and-new-direction/
- https://www.shell.com/search.html?q=climate+change
- https://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/