Global Warming Dbq

One of the largest arguments about global warming is that it can’t be true because winters are becoming more severe. The counter argument to this is similar to the one about the Arctic. People use data from a certain area to dispute the truth behind climate change, another example of people looking past the big picture. Weather is a look at the atmosphere at a particular place and moment in time, while climate is over a long period. Having harsh storms and colder weather is a side effect of the warming oceans. As the temperature increases it increases evaporation, which makes its way to land and causes a higher amount of precipitation and winter weather. While the harsh storms come and go the evidence still shows temperature increasing as a whole, up about two degrees in the past thirty-five years (Source 8).

They say there is no evidence and no real scientific organizations accept it. People think environmental organizations are falsifying and exaggerating information about the climate. The majority of those contradicting climate change have never been apart of any actual research and only get their information from those who profit off the things destroying the environment. Some corporations who publicly deny global warming include the American Enterprise Institute, Americans for Prosperity, American Legislative Exchange Council, Beacon Hills Institute, Cato Institute, and many others. Each of the organizations listed are being privately funded by either Koch foundations or Exxonmobil, if not both (Source 12). Some of these companies acknowledge global warming but claim humans aren’t causing it, while others deny climate change