Is Climate Change A Real Problem?

Climate change is one of today’s most hotly debated topic. Scientists for many decades have made supposed claims that current energy creation and reliance on fossil fuels will lead to inevitable changes to the planet. Today, climate change denial is still a popular to most of the world despite the mounds of evidence to support that it exists. The climate change issue suffers from being mismanaged by various parties through focusing on the wrong issues and the lack of true commitment from the general public, according to Sandra Steingraber.

Climate change has been a subject of discussion in the media for many years, supported with the use of arguments against oil polluting the environment and extreme scare tactics of Polar ice caps flooding civilians backyards. The issue has been ignored by the majority of lay people as seeming too complicated, and with all the conflicting information in the media in the past, who can blame them? However, scientifically, climate change and what perpetrates it is fairly simple to understand and society as a whole is beginning to come to a clear consensus on climate change. Thanks in part to more readily available forms of media and information, people have become cognizant of the fact that climate change is a legitimate problem which requires immediate amelioration. While this may seem melodramatic, society is realizing that climate change is an issue which can no longer be denied if the human race wishes to continue.

First, an overwhelming scientific consensus agrees that human activity is primarily responsible for Global Climate Change. A study in 2010 showed that 97-98% of researchers agree that human activity is the primary cause for climate change around the world. This study also found that the expertise of researchers unconvinced was “substantially below” the researchers that were. The 2013 Cook review showed that out of the 11.944 studies, less than 1% completely rejected the possibility of humans causing this. A different review of 13, 950 studies of climate change found only 24 that rejected humans causing climate change. Let’s just go with majority rules. A different study held by Bray and Von Storch, two German scientists, showed that 83.5% of scientists studying climate believe that humans are causing the recent amounts of climate change. Also, a study in 2011 showed that 84% of scientists studying earth, space, the atmosphere, oceans and hydrology believe that human caused climate change is

Essential Questions: Why are many people so concerned about climate change, and what scientific evidence suggests that it is occurring? What causes can be attributed to this change?

These last two election cycles have demonstrated the importance of climate change in relation to politics and the american people. What is unfortunate is that what seems to be a very crucial and real problem in our human survival, according to scientists, is being debated by people who do not have the scientific credentials to even discuss the science behind the reality of climate change. Those behind the skeptics, have funded a successful campaign against the reality of the facts and have introduce doubt into the sciences.

There have been plenty of disputes regarding the infamous topic global warming, despite the fact that there is a unanimous scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. A history professor at UCSD, Naomi Oreskes, discusses this in her article, “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change”. She begins her investigation by researching credible experts and environmental organizations, such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences, and several others. By utilizing these various sources as evidence it strengthens her argument about the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. In this case, Oreskes audience consists of

Humans will destroy the earth if no one acts. Climate change is a serious problem that has been around for decades. The 21st century is special because of the technology and information available. Yet, people continue to ignore the overwhelming destruction happening to nature. Through many years, masses have begun to take responsibility and restore the planet. In time, the earth might be what it once was.

Many people believe that climate change is not real because there is not enough proof to say that greenhouse gases or man-made problems have caused climate changes. Our 45th President, Donald Trump believes that climate change is a “hoax”, “Donald Trump and other officials -- including some of his picks for top environment and energy posts in the federal government -- often deny or doubt the scientific reality that humans are causing the Earth to warm,” because our planet is billions of years old. Since our planet is very old, throughout the earth history temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher, more than ten times as high as it is today. “Many retired climate scientists dedicated to disentangling myth from fact, asserts bluntly that there is no proof that CO2 is the main driver of global warming” and a large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred

Climate change is not something we think about everyday and can be a complex and confusing topic to research or understand. Many of us do not understand the daily implications of climate or what the future climate may look like. Regardless, most people have strong opinions on the climate change topic and many are adamant about their decisions. All across the world, people wonder, is global warming a threat to our lives as we know them? Is the majority of it caused by humans? While some sources say that 97 percent of climate change scientists agree, other sources say it’s more like 40 percent. That is a very large difference in statistics that ranges from almost 100 percent to well under 50.(percent quote) There is still a large amount of controversy

As Bill Nye so aptly stated it, “Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” Though there is much debate on the topic, climate change is a serious issue that needs the backing of powerful figures to help resolve it.

There is no doubt that the climate is changing and humans are the cause of it. Since 2005, the 10 hottest years have occurred in the past 14 years (Gore, 2006). What this shows is that the average global temperature is gradually increasing, especially now. CO2 levels have been rising rapidly as well. According to the IPCC report, there has been a 40% increase of CO2 since pre industrial times and 30% has been absorbed into the oceans (IPCC, 2013). More evidence that shows that the climate is changing is that Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Greenland lost around 150-250 cubic kilometers of ice per year in a 4-year period and Antarctica

A question that scientists have been pondering about for a while is: How concerning is climate change? This question has mixed opinions for a many people. What world leaders believe is that it’s a major issue that needs to be dealt with by people in power. The main cause of the earth’s climate increasing are mainly caused by human activity. Wherever there is a cause there is a solution, and many people agree if people can reduce fossil fuels, motor transportation, littering, and etc. Then the world would be in better shape. As of reading these articles, it is clear that climate change is a global problem and should be the dealt with.

This lecture was hosted by Dr. Andrew Hoffman from University of Michigan. As suggested by the title, this lecture was a “diluted” version of considerable research from his book, which focused on understanding the effects of culture and politics on the notion of climate change. Dr. Hoffman started the lecture by providing many scientific studies and facts proving the reality and seriousness of climate change. So the question is, why do some people choose to not believe and oppose the scientific consensus on issues of climate change, while all the proofs are present? And the simple answer he gave was that, the debate over climate change right now is not about science, is not about climate models, but about politics and the conflicting worldviews of these people and the values that are threatened by the notion of climate change. Dr. Hoffman then explained that one of the key arguments is that a scientific consensus does not necessarily reflect social consensus.

The Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years. On the other hand, humans have been around for over two thousand years. The Earth has been through lots of climate change but none like the one we are experiencing. The ice glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster than ever. Sea levels are increasing more than ever while on land, we are recording record high temperatures and droughts. In addition, many places around the world are experiencing floods more than normal. These disasters have been a hot topic in the news and the United States presidential debates. There are the Democrats who acknowledges these facts and the Republican who denies these facts. Most people have accepted the fact that carbon dioxide, CO2, are the primary contribution to climate change but some people have yet accept it. I believe climate change is real.

There are tons of thoughts on Global Warming(G.W) on if its happening or not. Not many people believe in climate change(G.W), “but the people who do believe want the government to take part or take some kind of action and help make it more serious matter”( Scott Clement-Washington Post). They think it should be a one if the number one priority. 34% of people say GW is a big serious threat to the world and 64% of people say that it is no threat whats so ever. You would also think that people would believe in what scientist say because they’re the exports and they're the ones with the money to conduct the experiments to see what's happening, no, 35% of americans have little faith in scientists and 26% think that they are telling the truth. “Not to mention no more than 16% of american say there will be no effect of G.W in their lifetime and about 8% say it will happen, they think that its going to happen in the distant future not the present” (Karlyn Bowman and Jennifer Marsico from Forbes.com). What they don’t realize that G.W is already affecting us. people who think its not going to happen