Climate change is considered a controversial topic. Although scientists have been studying the issue, there are many citizens that are still not fully educated about it. Therefore, there are people who support scientists in their results, and there are people who deny the scientists’ findings as propaganda or exaggerations. This is the same issue even in politics, where the two main parties, Democrats and Republicans, have opposing perspectives on climate change. One can really tell just by looking at their approach to the issue, especially their tone and diction. The republican candidates doubts climate change, and when the topic is brought up during an interview, the republicans flatly deny it with no further discussion. They do give some …show more content…
During an interview on Morning Edition with Ted Cruz and Steve Inskeep (host), the senator states that the “scientific evidence doesn’t support global warming…the satellites that actually measure the temperature showed no significant warming whatsoever.” This was an interesting claim because typically scientists show that climate change is evident. Focusing on Cruz’s word choice of “no significant warming” is clever because when interpreting data, it depends on what is defined as insignificant. For example, data shows that the average global temperature has increased 6 degrees Celsius on average. This can be seen as insignificant because 6 is such a small number. However, this is actually a dramatic temperature as an average global temperature. In addition, an article from Washington Post discusses Ted Cruz’s claim that “many of the alarmists on global warming” does not have that evidence to back them up, and presents his evidence that in “the last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming”. Not only does he target those that believe in climate change as “alarmists”, which makes them seem as individuals overreacting to climate change, but he also exaggerates himself when he makes the claim that there is “no recorded warming”. However, the article proves Ted Cruz wrong when it quotes a scientist saying, “You can look at the data since 1980, and it’s pretty clear that there’s an ascending trend there. But if you look at any 15-year period, it’s a lot less clear that the trend line that you drive might actually mean something,” Mears
My parents grew up in small town in Mexico. There was a little river that went through part of the town when they were growing up. Every weekend or so they would go out and would go swimming with their families, it almost became a tradition to go swimming there until they noticed that the river 's water level was becoming smaller and smaller. Today there is no river anymore, instead it 's a road that travels through the town. Every time I visit my family in Mexico it would alway be nice and warm up until this year when I went in December. I remember waking up and getting ready to go to my aunt 's house in clothes for warm weather. As I open the door, the cold air punch me and I saw snowflakes falling down. It 's not supposed to snow in that
Climate change is a long-term change in regional or global climate patterns. From the mid twentieth century to now, it has mostly been about a significant increase in average global temperatures. Climate change is a major issue in the world today, and a lot of people feel very differently about the cause of it. The common argument about it is whether climate change is a natural occurrence or if the recent increase in temperatures is because of humans. Climate change is a natural cycle in the Earth’s weather. Before humans started burning fossil fuels, there were still weather cycles on Earth that were as hot or hotter than what it is now. In fact, Earth’s weather now, is on pace with the previous weather patterns in history. Human emitted
Climate change. The two letter word so feared by scientists, so ignored by the average human being. What is it that makes scientists fear this phrase so much? For the concept of “climate change” has been seen throughout the history of the earths existence. For centuries, our climate has fluctuated through increasing and decreasing amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide and climatic cycles. So what is the big deal? The problem, and the reason why this concept instills fear directly into the core of scientists is the rate at which over the past 1,300 years atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen. This unnatural increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, due to the immense amount of anthropogenic burning of oil and coal, affects the transfer
Thomas Abshire Professor Brazzel English 102 Research Essay #1 25 October 2014 Climate Change: How to stop it “Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” says Bill Nye. What is climate change? Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the variation of weather around average conditions.
The opposing party would like you to believe that the scientists are 90% certain that extreme heat periods will increase worldwide. They say that this is causing increased danger of wildfires, human deaths, and algal blooms. This of course is utterly false on many different levels. These scientists that the opposing party was actually paying a select group of scientists to testify for them meaning the “90% of Scientists” were actually lying because they were being paid off. The real majority agreed against these paid scientists, but they were not included in the vote for agreement in this statistic. These statistics are not nearly as dire as described because they won’t happen. This is because the CO2 emissions are no where near to where they are portrayed in the Al Gore video.
Climate change is currently one of the most discussed environmental problems, and it remains a difficult problem to address. Among and within different nations, there are varying degrees of belief in climate change as an issue. A number of scholars discuss in their works climate change as a paramount collective action problem, and argue that climate change subsists as an important issue due to the heated debate that surrounds its perception of it as a problem and because of the various obstacles that stand in the way of its potential solutions. To a large extent, climate change can be described as a collective action problem. Ostrom defines the theory of collective action as a method where groups tend to act in support of their group interests—common
Recently, James Hansen, NASA's former top climate scientist, and sixteen of his colleagues penned a terrifying report in "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion," an online open-access journal published by the European Geosciences Union. The paper, entitled "Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2°C global warming is highly dangerous," is being widely debated by academics around the world. Right now, the scientific community is divided. Indeed, some researchers believe that Hansen's predictions are too radical and catastrophic, while others in the scientific community argue the opposite.
Without the climate of the world we live in we would fail to survive. The earth is quickly warming degree by precious degree, as our consumption of resources continue to skyrocket. While there is nothing we can do to completely stop climate change in its tracks there are several things that we can do as a species to slow its effects. We need to be actively making an effort to save the wonderful world we live in. By decreasing our use of pollutants we can make sure that our planet will actually have a future for millenniums to come.
Those surveyed and asked if there is a solid evidence for the rise in temperatures, 43% of those who identified themselves as Republicans answered no (as opposed to the 16% of the Democrats who answered no) (Christopher Borick). Namely, Republican senator and prospective Presidential candidate, Marco Rubio, voiced his skepticism of the issue. In an interview on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos”, he disagrees with the notion that humans are the basis of the problem (Huetteman) “I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it, and I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it, except it will destroy our economy”
During the 21st annual Conference of Parties (COP 21) Summit in Paris, President Obama plans to host numerous world leaders in order to come up with plans to fight global warming. However, there are many scientists that are already working on plans to save our planet. Lord Nicholas Stern, an economist from London, recently spoke for TED and presented many solutions to growing climate changes. He announced that the whole world has to take responsibility together and come up with a solution to change the way we live. Simon Anholt, a policy advisor, has also worked to implement new strategies for cleaner energy. In his TED talk, Anholt talks about individual contributions and how it could lead to a collective solution. An article written by Andy
Many people dedicate their lives to spread the message about climate change being real. Even though some change in the climate is natural, many events that have happened cannot be explained away by nature. Climate change is causing damage to the world that is completely irreversible. Nasa says, “Most scientists say it 's very likely that most of the warming since the mid-1900s is due to the burning of coal, oil and gas. Burning these fuels is how we produce most of the energy that we use every day” (nasa). The energy that we use daily makes our life easier, but it hurts the earth. Why does the government still allow us to use these things? Science has shown us that sea levels are rising in many parts of the world. Warm weather is causing glaciers to melt which results in the sea level rising. Earth 's average temperature has been rising for the last century in a half; and there has also been a steady rise in ocean temperature since 1969. It is said that climate control is man made and it is dangerous. On the other side of the argument, many people do not believe that climate change is real. They argue that their has not been a big temperature change in almost two decades. They also bring up the point of there not being enough data in the climate history to draw the conclusion of what is happening in the climate now is abnormal. Scientist started to record climate change around the 1800’s which many people believe is not enough data to do a comparison. Another reason some believe that climate change is not real is because of some instances where a scientist predicts a date of a significant climate change never happens. Rinkesh writes, “ For example:- Al Gore predicted that all Arctic ice would be gone by 2013. But, on contrary Arctic ice is up by 50% since 2012” (conserve-energy-future). Many people find that these reasons are why climate change is not
Climate change is one of the most discussed topics of the twenty-first century. Although this subject is very often on the daily basis of lots of people, most of them do not know much about it. So let us define climate change. People think that climate change is the same thing as global warming. However, global warming only represents one aspect of climate that is temperature. Climate change is any significant change in temperature, precipitation, or a wind pattern that occur over several decades or longer.
The Earth is currently locked in perpetuating spiral of climate change. While the global climate has unarguably been changing since the dawn of it's manifestation, the once steadied ebb and flow of climate change has become increasingly more unpredictable.The risk of rising sea levels, and drought plaguing the fresh water supply, during the time that flooding and sporadic storm conditions turn once fully inhabited regions into uninhabitable death traps. Climate change catalyzed by human's increased production of carbon dioxide, is more noticeable than ever in our recorded history (United States, 2014 National Climate Assessment). Thankfully however, with the changing weather conditions due to carbon related emissions, the change in public opinion about their personalized influence on climate change is also increasing. Kevin Liptak Jethro Mullen, and Tom Cohen note that In reaction to the most recent governmental report on climate change, even the U.S. government believes that a stronger approach needs to be taken to correct our self-generated cataclysm.
The controversial subject of global warming according to a large amount of scientists is not a prominent concern. Over 31,000 scientists have signed on to a petition saying humans aren't causing global warming. More than 1000 scientists signed on to another report saying there is no global warming at all. There are tens of thousands of well-educated, mainstream scientists who do not agree that global warming is occurring at all. If so many scientists believe it is not a concern then why should we think any different? Well, a consensus shows that in reality 97% of all climate scientists agree that global warming is an issue and that it is most likely due to ...
Adam went on to say that “the carbon dioxide we emit today will probably affect the climate well into our children’s future and likely into the future of our grandchildren.” Despite the widespread recognition of this fact, worldwide emissions of fossil fuels continue to increase every year. Emissions will increase even further as the developing world moves towards greater industrialization. At the conclusion of our interview I began to understand and share with Adam the feeling of anger he exhibited towards skeptics of global warming that had at first puzzled me. It seems as if extensive efforts are being made to discredit scientific evidence not because proponents of the theory actually believe there is no correlation between the rise in temperature and carbon dioxide but rather because society is afraid they may be forced to sacrifice their standard of living.