Climate Change Arguments

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Is conflicting evidence that can support good and bad arguments enough to provoke worldwide action? What if that information had the potential to ruin and end many lives? It is extremely important that people know enough about climate change to make an educated decision. Climate change is a huge threat and largely debated. All of the information about climate change (so far) can be used to say it’s real, and that it’s not. If climate change is real it has the potential to create extreme natural disasters, leading to many deaths. If climate change isn’t real, lots of money will have been wasted. Around 2010, 8.8$ billion had been spent, extremely close to doubling over the span of 7 years. That, in a worst case scenario, could lead to people …show more content…

Scientists claim that there is much more CO2 and methane in the atmosphere (fumes coming from oil and coal that humans burn) than there should be (www.ucsusa.org). Scientists have done studies on a percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere, and noticed there was a pattern that you could use to distinguish natural CO2 and CO2 coming from fossil fuels. They found that most or even almost all of the CO2 in the atmosphere was coming from fossil fuels (ucsusa.org & nasa.gov). However, there are also many other reasons. Another reason people could support climate change is the threat of what could happen if it is, compared to if it isn’t …show more content…

Climate change opinions vary the most in the US, far more than all the other continents. It may be because the US leader himself does not believe in climate change and actively speaks out to those who do, but there are most likely other reasons for it (nytimes.com). One of them could be that the US arguably burns the most oil out of all the continents, so they defend the claim that climate change is not contributed to by oil (hydrocarbons-technology.com). Another could be how America is one of the most christian continents, and some opinions could be swayed by religious beliefs

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