Anthropogenic Climate Change

Claim: Human activities, primarily the combustion of fossil fuels and deforestation, are the dominant cause of contemporary global climate change.

VERIFIED REALITY Worldwide#climate#global-warming#environment
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Bullshit Meter

Pure ontological fiction, excluding real psychological effects.

3.8%
Hard empirical modelHeuristicHybrid pseudosciencePure fiction

Physics vs. mind loop

Does it work in the physical world, or only through belief and behaviour?

Physical world95.8%
Mind & behaviour0.3%

Works physically, independent of belief.

Bio & cult hazard

1.0%

Risk of abandoning medicine and of getting trapped in a closed group.

☣ Medical risk1.0%
🔒 Cult isolation0.1%

Topological fingerprint

The structural profile of the claim on five axes.

Empirical rigorMagic & dogmaRhetorical fogConspiracyPsychosocial
Empirical rigor
97.3%
Magic & dogma
0.4%
Rhetorical fog
1.4%
Conspiracy
3.5%
Psychosocial
0.9%
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Ockham's guillotine

What remains after cutting away the unfalsifiable superstructure.

Hard core96.5%
Common sense2.0%
Pure ritual0.4%
Empty negation1.1%

Scam & grift

0.0%

How much it works as a money-extraction funnel.

1. Bait0.2%
2. Guru dependence0.5%
3. Blaming the client0.0%

Fog & Barnum

1.4%

Protection from refutation through vagueness and stolen jargon.

Energy, frequency, vibration, quantum alignment, natural harmony, ancient wisdom, holistic balance…

  • Barnum effect0.1%
  • Motte-and-bailey0.0%
  • Stolen jargon0.1%

Guru roulette

1.5%

Does the result depend on who performs it?

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Repeatability between operators: 98.5%

  • Special gift needed0.5%
  • Contradicting experts0.5%
  • "Skeptics block it"0.6%

Fossil & dogma clock

0.4%

Does the field correct its errors, or is it frozen?

  1. 🚀Active science99.8%
  2. 🩹Degenerative patching0.1%
  3. 🎭Marketing chameleon0.0%
  4. 🦴Fossil in amber0.1%

Tin-foil hat reactor

4.3%

How big a global conspiracy the claim needs.

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Paranoia level 1/5 · No conspiracy needed