A major problem in the debate on climate change is a general lack of knowledge on the subject. People usually do not think electricity, gasoline, or paper toilet comes. Part of this acceptance comes from the fashion industry separates the products of the production process … When I turn on the lights in Los Angeles, we see no plants and coal mines that generated the power … Only with special attention to the connections. Another part of the problem is that we resist the science question, which has such prestige that people rarely stop to question who is funding the research and whether that could compromise the results. (Gibson 17)
The majority also understand how the global warming theory. They think that a very cold winter evidence that global warming is a myth. However, scientists support the ideas of global warming is referring to long-term climate change. Climate patterns environmental concerns over a long period of time. The time refers to events of short duration, and may contain isolated. One of the predictions of many scientists is that global warming will cause climate extreme: hotter summers, longer droughts, cold winters and stronger storms. According to his theories, Europe may be released in another ice age due to global warming, it became a tropical storm heaven. This is due to the effect of global warming may have on the flow ocean.
Skeptics tend to find any opportunity to attack the views of scientists on the basis of some isolated weather event, or lack of such an event. If scientists predict increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes, skeptics noted that this last hurricane season was very mild, with only severe storms hit Mexico. ultra-conservative commentator, Rush Limbaugh, not only to consider global warming is a myth, a hoax call and religion. "It's salvation, has everything in it. You have the ingredient of religion: faith. Because none of this can be proven" (Limbaugh 4). Limbaugh also disagree with the use of the word "consensus" on global warming activists, and is the right to do so. "The consensus and science-I have blue in the face to say this "I do not and can not mutually coexist" (Limbaugh 4). If scientists had reached any kind of consensus, this would a dead issue. Most scientists agree that Earth's temperature has increased, but that does not mean they agree about the causes or consequences.
A survey of more than 530 climate scientists from 27 countries showed that 82% of scientists agreed that global warming is happening. Only 2.6% said they "strongly disagree." When asked if the current scientific knowledge can allow for a reasonable assessment of the gases greenhouse, two-thirds of scientists agree with the statement.
The question most people are very interested in asking climate scientists is probably "agree or disagree that climate change is mainly the result of anthropogenic (man) cause? "A little over half (55.8%) of respondents agreed climate scientists, 14.2% no were safe, and 30% disagreed. Interestingly, more scientists "strongly disagree" to "agree" that climate change is primarily the result of anthropogenic causes. The survey clearly shows that the debate about why the climate is changing is still ongoing, with nearly half of climate scientists disagree with what is often claimed that the "consensus" view. (Tow 4)
The study continues to clarify that the question was not whether humans have an effect on climate, but they are primarily responsible. Certainly it is very possible that people Humans have at least some effect on climate, but nothing can be proven with certainty.
Some skeptics believe that humanity is too small and could not have as much influence on the environment. S. Fred Singer is a known climate change skeptic. He has been trying to garner support for the theory that climate change is a natural and cyclical process. He believes that the land has a 1,500-year cycle of warming and cooling, with minor ice ages interspersed with interglacial periods. Singer says his research shows this cycle that goes back at least a million years, often with abrupt changes. At one time, Greenland was green, with crops and livestock. Warm waters were abundant in fish and seals. Were two prosperous settlements, but finally remained to glaciers, malnutrition and hunger. The milk producers were forced even to feed their cows. This was due to a fall of 1.5 degrees Celsius in average temperatures between 1100 and 1400. "Denmark is not colonize Greenland again until 1721, when the Little Ice Age was losing its grip on the huge island. Today, 150 years in the modern warming, Greenland is 50,000 people "(Singer xii). Singer believes that these cycles are not caused by solar changes, the greenhouse gases. He is skeptical of activists that" society asked to relinquish most of their consumption of fossil-fuel energy and accept radical reductions in living standards to "save the planet" (Singer 3). Although it makes sense not to be dragged by the alarmist propaganda of the activists, not willing to sacrifice an air conditioner or an SUV, if it is truly necessary, seems selfish and defiant.
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