If you
happen to follow climate change science more closely you'll be able to read
about new climate change predictions at almost a daily level. The majority of
these predictions or estimates, what ever you called them, refer to negative
consequences of climate change, describing climate change as the biggest
environmental threat of our time, the one that could seriously jeopardize our
future wellbeing.
On the
other side are climate change skeptics who believe that climate change is the
biggest scientific hoax of our time. They claim that there is no reason to fear
climate change and doubt currently dominant climate change science by claiming
it is influenced by funding and different political factors.
To an average
Joe it must seem very difficult to choose side but let's look at the logic
behind it all. There have been far more studies confirming ongoing climate
change impact than those that deny it.
True, none
of these studies is 100% accurate in future predictions simply because climate
change has many factors that make total predictability almost impossible, at
least given our current scientific and technological level of knowledge.
Question to
climate change skeptics - how to deny the correlation between the increase in
greenhouse gas emissions and the global increase in temperatures? Just a
coincidence or what?
Other
similar questions - how to explain more frequent droughts, floods and extreme
weather events without involving the climate change issue?
Is mainstream
science really capable to pull out the global hoax of these massive proportions
and what's the point of it? Would so many different scientists across the globe
all be lying to us and scare us with catastrophic future climate change
scenarios?
What side
would you choose and why?
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