Michael Shermer on Climate Hoax: Leans deny

The claim: Human-caused climate change is a hoax.

Undated: “The amount of CO2 being produced is off the charts," Shermer said. "Everything naturally goes up and down, but this is extreme.” source
2020-07-17: “it turns out that there's no good evidence for this level of alarm you should certainly be concerned about” source
2020-07-21: “we don't talk about whether global warming is real and human caused he thinks it is and starts with that that premise as he writes climate change is real it is caused predominantly by carbon emissions from humans burning fossil fuels and we should tackle it intelligently all right so he's not a climate denier not even remotely close” source
2026-04-18: “Then I started reading things like climate change is a hoax , big pharma and all the doctors want you to be sick , there’s a carburetor that gets 200 miles to the gallon but the oil companies are keeping it secret —all these kinds of things. I thought, well, it could be true, but this is too big, too grandiose .” source