Climate Change Is Real-An Easy Guide To Explain Climate Change To Your Disbeliving Friends

Hello darlings~~

My post for this week is about CLIMATE CHANGE. Being a very controversial topic, I am more than happy to get nitty and gritty with this post.

When I was in highschool, the majority of my classmates were very secular and were just mouthpieces for whatever their parents believed. As I personally believed in climate change being more of a result of human action, than a natural cycle that the earth goes through, I found much opposition. My peers opposed simply because their parents didn't believe in it, not because they had actually done any research to make up their own mind. This is why out of the multiple links that professor Huff let us choose from, I choose the "no necessay downloading" PDF from the EPA's website, which is titled "Frequently Asked Questions About Global Warming And Climate Change: Back To The Basics". It is a short and sweet 8-page guide to all the basic questions that will help explain climate change and global warming to your non-believing friends;)

There are three main questions that I am required to answer based on the reading that I did.

1) Climate is most certainly changing! Climate change means the major changes that people are able to see that occur over decades and not the daily change in weather. For example in the last hundred years the average global temperature has risen 1.5F and the ocean has risen about 4-8 iches. This may seem like small changes, but they certainly are changes! Even the smallest change can affect many creatures and people.  These climate changes are not just ice caps melting thousands of miles away from our homes, but even back at home, people that hunt animals sometimes to help feed their families are experiencing the negatives affects of this change. The time and season in which hunters could expect certain animals to be out, has changed because of their mating, migrating etc patterns.

2) Sad as it may be, humans have probably contributed the most to climate change. There are some smaller natural forces at work, but primarily it has been the large contribution of humans. Since the industrial revolution in the western world, the carbon emission output has more than doubled. We are responsible for deforestation in many countries like Brazil and Indonesia. Our greenhouse gases are destroying the atmosphere.

3) Climate change is already affecting our society and world. We can't reverse what we have done. Because of the constant heating of the earth, many animals will die out and while it might seem a far cry for the existence of polar bears to have any affect on the life of a California girl, they most certainly do. Every living creature plays some important part in the ecosystem, taking one of these parts out will change everything. Bringing the example closer to home, with the atmosphere change it affects the agriculture that my state is famous for. Longer summers, shorter winters has a direct impact on our agriculture. If humans do not try and stop the rapid climate change, there won't be a living Earth for anyone or thing to inhabit.

In my humble opinion, the skepticism exists because there are those who believe the change is normal and Earth does this every thousand years etc. I personally know some people that honestly think this is just a "cycle".

Many politicians and corporations benefit by brainwashing people into believing that climate change isn't a threat. Our oil consumption has a lot to do with climate change, and if you work in business you will know that many items are produced using tons of oil and oil is used in many other aspects of the stages of production to shipping. These companies need to be able to continue to use up the resources that they do, and rape the environment. If people suddenly wanted to protect it, this would damage if not ruin their companies. All their resources are pretty much not renewable sources from the earth, and their methods of production are not environmentally friendly.

If humans continue their destruction lifestyles, in 50 years I don't think think humans will be able to live on the Earth anymore. We can't sustain this lifestyle for very long. I am just honestly sad that the so many people don't realize that climate change is a huge concern.