PARIS, Oct 31 — As world leaders prepare for the COP26 climate summit from October 31, AFP Fact Check examines some common claims that question the existence of global heating caused by humans.Some brand the crisis a hoax by scientists to justify their research grants — or even a conspiracy by governments to control people. If so, it would have to be one of extraordinary complexity, coordinated by successive governments in scores of countries with vast numbers of scientists.
The panel was founded under a UN resolution, which provides fuel for conspiracy theorists but offers proof of its bona fides for other people.Scientists know the Earth has long alternated between ice ages and periods of warming — about one ice age every 100,000 years over the past million years. Is the current heating just another stage in this cycle?
“Global surface temperature has increased faster since 1970 than in any other 50-year period over at least the last 2,000 years,” the IPCC says, with graphs to demonstrate.
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