Who believes climate change is a hoax?

The claim: Human-caused climate change is a hoax. Counts as saying it's true: Says or endorses that warming isn't real, isn't human-caused, or is a fabricated scheme. Counts as saying it's false: Says human-caused climate change is real.

Says it's true (10)

Donald Trump: “The same people that said, “We’ll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming,” a name since “reborn” to Climate Change, because the Planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead, are the people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us, that robots are go…” (2026-09-21, source)
Joe Rogan: “But the climate change [ __ ] is not real. That's been a lie the whole time.” (2026-01-06, source)
Alex Jones: “they bring up this made up crap about global warming or any climate change is unusual and it's really just an excuse when you get deeper in the documents for weather Warfare against the third world” (2011-11-24, source)
Candace Owens: “Climate doom predictions have always been about scaring citizens into more taxation and regulation. 1970: acid rain 1975: global cooling 1990: global warming 2000: ocean acidity Today: climate change It is an ever-moving target and the costliest lie of every generation.” (2020-05-12, source)
Dan Bongino: “WATCH: NOAA Data Easily Debunks Hurricane/Climate Change Hoax” (2022-09-29, source)
Liz Cheney: “the science is just simply bogus, you know, we know that temperatures have been stable for the last 15 years.” (2013-07-18, source)
Tucker Carlson: “Actually, no one really believes in global warming and that's why all the liberals in the United States live on the coasts, because they don't believe it. That's why many of them fly private, because the entire theory is absurd and they know it.” (2022-07-20, source)
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “If you believe that today’s “climate change” is caused by too much carbon, you have been fooled.” (2023-04-15, source)
Ian Carroll: “The climate change psyop is meant to distract you from the dirt.” (2025-04-22, source)
Michael Flynn

Hints it's true (6)

Andrew Tate: “'Climate change' is new world order bullshit.” (undated, source)
JD Vance: “this idea that carbon emissions drives all of the climate change. Well, let's just say that's true, just for the sake of argument, so we're not arguing about weird science.” (2024-10-01, source)
Jack Posobiec: “there is a large portion of people pushing this that do talk about the need of reducing the world population of getting rid of of people because they pollute and we have to have climate change effective green policies that get rid of people” (2021-10-24, source)
Jimmy Dore: “After living through COVID, Russiagate, the Ukraine war, the Syrian war, and 20 years of Afghanistan, I am now doubting climate change.” (2025-03-09, source)
Laura Loomer: “Oh, but the progressive left said it was "climate change"” (2025-01-10, source)
Nick Fuentes: “Climate change deniers stay winning” (2021-02-16, source)

Unclear (2)

Donald Trump Jr.: “the reality is America's leading the world in being able to deal with climate change in terms of those kind of things while not also simultaneously destroying our industry but that is what the left is willing to do” (2019-09-10, source)
Adam Kinzinger: “while some may say that the United States needs to be the leader of combating climate change, I would say that we already are.” (2019-09-18, source)

Hints it's false (4)

Jon Stewart: “Apparently decades of peer-reviewed scientific study can be, like a ficus plant, destroyed in one cold weekend.” (undated, source)
John Oliver: “Fundamentally, we cannot offset our way out of climate change.” (2022-08-26, source)
Michael Shermer: “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, bu…” (2026-04-18, source)
Theo Von: “I'm serious dude so I'm like we gotta fight this” (2022-11-29, source)

Says it's false (18)

Bill Nye: “Well, those are the same thing. The world is getting warmer and it’s changing the climates.” (2019-01-31, source)
Elon Musk: “The only action needed to solve climate change is is a carbon tax” (2024-02-03, source)
Barack Obama: “A second way you can have an impact on climate change is by pressuring companies to do the right thing.” (2021-11-08, source)
Brian Cox: “Your profile says you are concerned about climate. The reason you are concerned is because we did research, understood the effects of greenhouse gases and modelled their effects. Don’t be a responsible citizen in one area and a conspiracy theorist in another.” (2020-12-02, source)
Anderson Cooper: “climate change is obviously a horrendous story we have on the bestseller list now for the last 18 weeks the uninhabitable earth which paints the a very grim picture” (2019-03-27, source)
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “On this occasion of the June solstice, consider that while you can choose to ignore scientific consensus on climate change, you’ll find it much harder to ignore Mother Nature.” (2024-06-20, source)
Mehdi Hasan: “I will not do an interview with a Marjorie Taylor Greene, a person who's pushing QAnon conspiracies and election and climate change denialism. It's not worth it—I'm not going to debate reality.” (2023-04-12, source)
Rachel Maddow: “the phenomenon described by scientists, remember scientists, the thing they describe as climate change actually means things like extreme weather events like huge blizzards on the East Coast in the winter.” (2010-12-29, source)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Charity can’t replace policy, but solidarity is how we’ll face climate change and build a better world.” (2021-02-21, source)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I don't care if you believe in climate change or not. I do. I think it's existential.” (2023-09-26, source)
Seth Meyers: “wildfires supercharged by climate change” (2020-11-03, source)
Bill Maher: “Trump has always said it's a hoax, the whole thing with climate change,” (2026-02-13, source)
Hillary Clinton: “Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it’s real. And I think it’s important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad.” (2016-09-26, source)
Russell Brand: “Look at these lovely people giving climate deniers a reality check http://t.co/FTSsvznGXc. Join em. #ClimateChangeIsReal #ThingsCanChange” (2015-04-20, source)
Stephen Colbert: “It doesn’t matter what you believe – it’s true!” (2021-10-26, source)
Mick West: “There's real problems with climate change and pollution that people aren't, they aren't addressing them because they think the chemtrail are happening, so it distracts away from real problems.” (2015-05-30, source)
Piers Morgan: “I tend not to take my scientific advice from climate change deniers.” (2022-11-08, source)
Ben Shapiro: “Climate change is real; it is largely anthropogenic; and it is a concern, not a crisis. The world is not "on fire." It is gradually warming. People are adapting.” (2021-12-14, source)

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