Global warming and climate change. They are some of the most highly contested issues in politics today. While the evidence supporting climate change is overwhelming, there are many who still believe it to be a conspiracy theory perpetrated by the radical left in order to kill capitalism, or something like that. The temperature of the earth has been rising rapidly since the age of industrialization began. With the new temperature differentials natural disasters have increased dramatically not only in rate but in strength. Many just cannot accept that there are penalties to their lifestyle, they do not want to give up all the luxuries they have to fix a problem they not only do not believe exists, but if it does will never affect them. That is the problem with our society.
But that is just my opinion on climate change. But the article I read was about how the theory of global warming impacts the way people view the weather and think about the weather. The different individuals who posted in regards to the prompt had many different opinions on how we view the weather. One man said that "One side uses the weather when it helps their view. Then the other side does the same." In his opinion, it doesn't matter what happens in regards to the weather, people will try to look at whatever happens differently to fit their viewpoint. This is for the most part true, people are always going to spin the circumstances in order to further their cause, and to justify themselves further. But what I do disagree with is that everyone can successfully soon everything. That's just not true. If you want to win the war you have to accept that you'll lose a few battles.
The second commenter had a similar opinion to the first. But while the first believed that people will purposefully spin the weather to their view, the second believed that many people look at the same situation in different ways, but come to the same opinion eventually. "Some will believe that unusually heavy snowfall is evidence of a cold spell because if had been warmer there would have been rain.Others will believe unusually heavy snowfall is evidence that temperatures are warmer than normal because colder temperatures would result in less water in the air and less snow. Thus, interpretations about the causes of heavy snowfall reveal mental models (i.e., explanations for how things work) about weather." People like to think they know about everything, but in reality they don't, and base their 'knowledge' on pure conjecture.
What it really comes down to are the facts. Regardless of how people want to spin the circumstances, it is undeniable that the world is warming up. We have created an intense greenhouse through our massive CO2 releases, and the more we drive our cars, burn coal, and run our factories, the worse the problem gets. Maybe by the time the icecaps finish melting we will have realized the situation we are in, but by then it will already be too late.
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