Fact or Fiction?

 

For answers - click on the green number.

 

1 - We’re all going to die![1]

2 - Global warming is a hoax.[2]

3 - It’s good to cut down trees.[3]

4 - The apocalypse will arrive in 2030 (or 2100).[4]

5 - You will decarbonize your life-style.[5]

6 - Our pollution changes the weather.[6]

7 - We must save the planet.[7]

8 - Atmospheric warming will decrease as soon as our polluting stops.[8]

9 - The phrase “climate change” was invented by a Republican strategist.[9]

10 - No one’s in charge.[10]

  1. 1- True; everyone dies someday. ↩︎

  2. 2 - False; Mother Nature doesn’t like pollution. ↩︎

  3. 3 - False; see background photograph. ↩︎

  4. 4 - False; the weather will worsen in fits and starts, but there won’t be one particular Apocalypse day. ↩︎

  5. 5 - True; unless you die first. Everyone will, sooner or later. ↩︎

  6. 6 - True; because all of us, together, make so much of it. ↩︎

  7. 7 - False; the planet is not in “danger”, and it wouldn’t care if it was. Living creatures are suffering and dying - that’s the problem! ↩︎

  8. 8 - False; because of the pollution we’ve already made the warming of the weather will continue for years; but eventually we’ll be rewarded with clean water and clear skies. ↩︎

  9. 9 - True; Frank Luntz thought “climate change” was less likely to scare people into action than “global warming”. ↩︎

  10. 10 - True; you are in charge as much as anyone else is. ↩︎