Greenhouse gasses are known to be the major cause of global warming. Most historians and researchers agree that global warming began since the introduction of the Industrial Era. However, at that point, the acknowledgment and existence of global warming was vague and disinterest among most people.
Around the year 1827, Jean-Baptiste Fourier, a famous individual said that greenhouse gasses kept the earth warmer, while on 1938, an reputable engineer named Guy Stewart Callendar, foresee that the concentration and usage of carbon dioxide from burnings of fossil fuel will rise the Earth’s average temperature up to 2 degrees that are capable of melting the ice poles. His predictions were later approve and proven by independent scientists and various individuals when more detailed studies are conducted. When it came to the 1990s, climate scientists then came up with a wide range of calculations and measurements related to global warming, that removes all reasonable doubt that human practice and activities was the cause of global warming.
When more and more evidence came up, fossil fuel businesses soon realize that they have to confront the public and political pressure to reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses. As a result, they used many kinds of psychology and persuasive methods and techniques by targeting people who are uneducated and scientifically illiterate that they are not the major cause of global warming. For example, misrepresentation, arguments, attacks on individuals and groups, claimed threats on personal wealth and liberty, peer pressure and repetition of false facts and information.
The objective here was not to obtain victory from governments and environmentalist, but more to provide an impression to cast and show doubts on the climate science by widespread of uncertainty and confusion. With this, they hope their business will strive longer by avoiding all sorts of regulations and rules from the government that could have serious impact on their profit margins. Even a large number of scientists are being bribed and lured by money from the fossil fuels companies to deny the fact about global warming and climate change.