evidence: Popular social media posts claim that climate change is a "made-up catastrophe," despite a large body of evidence that supports the scientific consensus that it is real. [...] But a post liked by thousands on Instagram and shared repeatedly throughout social media claims climate change isn’t real, calling it a "made-up catastrophe used by globalists & socialists to instill fear and guilt to tax, regulate, and remove our freedoms while pretending to be saving the planet." There’s a lot to unpack in that statement, but we’ll focus on the core falsehood: that climate change is a "made-up catastrophe."