

If global warming is a hoax, I’m a green alien from the planet Straftyorb. Seriously.

Our media network founder, David Anderson, shared the infographic below on Facebook the other day. I passed on sharing it on here because it just seems so obvious. However, it’s been going around and it is a pretty straightforward (if not somewhat simplified) explanation as to why the whole “global warming is a hoax” nonsense is just that, complete and utter nonsense. Aside from the fact that if you look into the science at all, this is painfully obvious, the point is that the scientific consensus is of thousands of scientists and scientific organizations around the world, while the ‘skeptics’ are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry and extreme libertarian organizations.

Anyway, here’s said infographic:

For a little more detail on that, I’ve always loved this great table below. As Climate Progress nicely prefaces it, “Let’s take a look at who is on either side of this so-called climate-change debate:”