Is climate change real?

Yes—climate change is real. The Earth is warming, and the main driver is human activity that adds heat‑trapping gases (like CO2 and methane) to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and some agriculture.

Multiple lines of evidence show this:

These conclusions are shared by every major national science academy and agencies like NASA, NOAA, and the IPCC. If you’d like, I can go deeper on the causes, the local impacts where you live, or common myths and how we know they’re false.