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Nick Kouvalis Arguments Against Global Warming

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Global Warming has been a heated deliberation for decades discussing whether it is happening and if humans are responsible. Either conclusion will result in decisions that will shape the world. It is evident that global warming is a real phenomenon caused by man’s use of fossil fuels. The evidence for the existence of global warming and its connection to carbon dioxide is not ignorable, and points to humans being the culprits. The scientific community accepts global warming as being a valid scientific theory. The arguments based on science against global warming argue that global warming has to do more with nature and less to do with humans and carbon dioxide. Many global warming deniers sometimes claim that global warming is some part of …show more content…

Many global warming deniers postulate that there is a conspiracy either to get more funding or to “make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive”, as the president of the United States said in a tweet when running for office (Trump). Usually arguing anything supporting global warming is either over exaggerated or fabricated, that the conclusions made by institutions like NASA should be ignored in favor for people like Dr. Easterbrook. They often base their judgment on their personal experience. Such the common statement made by people like Nick Kouvalis who twitted, “what a night for climate change” while showing a picture of snow (Kouvalis). People have a distrust of global warming research because many believe that global warming is more about politics than it is about science. According to Patrick More who states in “Global Warming Myth” that the global warming movement happened because of communism, “‘reason environmental extremism emerged was because world communism failed, the Berlin wall came down’ ” (Contoski). Global warming is often tied to politics by people who attempt to disprove it. A website blog “Posts about global warming on A Thinking Person, a.k.a. Cogit8R.” global warming was turned into a political issue instead of a scientific debate as to “tarnish science with politics.” (Hamilton). Even if it has been tied to personal views and politics, global warming is a scientific theory supported by evidence collected by people with no political agendas. Hasty generalizations is not a replacement for research. Throwing out all the data, observations, and expert conclusion to support a particular view is what being biased means. Anyone can believe anything admittedly if they are going to cherry pick the data. Personal experiences and conspiracies are a horrible way to build an accurate picture of

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