I have been waiting for the most obvious reason for global warming to put forth which is all the fires in Siberia, Brazil and California and of course some volcanoes spewing heat.

Yes, it is stupid but it is not as stupid as some of the other reasons put forward by companies and people who want gullible people to ignore facts. One reader said the Earth is getting closer to the sun.  Astrophysicists think it might be less than a hundred miles each year. Actually the sun is still expanding. Our orbit is elliptical with aphelion and perihelion having a difference of 3.1 million miles so a hundred miles is microscopic.

Another falsehood is the sun is getting hotter. It will in a few billion years as its hydrogen fuel is burned up. Oddly that argument is usually accompanied by the statement we aren’t getting hotter.

One of my favorites is the moving of a few temperature recording instruments from a few cities to more rural areas. What is funny is they represent less than .001 percent of all the NOAA and other departments and reporting organizations. In reality moving them is a mistake because it upsets the continuity of those instruments’ reporting history.  Decades ago the official location moved from Midway Airport to O’Hare upsetting local temperatures records because the lake temporizing is less.

Social media spreads half-truths to total outrageous lies which gullible people believe. If people did simple fact checking they would know it’s untrue. Much is put out by fossil fuel company’s surrogates, political hacks, and Russian bots trying to further divide America. Gullibility has become an American trait.