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The Pros And Cons Of Climate Change

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“We have a single mission: to protect and hand on the planet to the next generation.” (Francois Hollande) Climate change can easily be regarded as one of the most highly debated subjects in modern times, bringing forth risks for the future and perceptions that can be detrimental to our survival. Climate change, is a very real and dangerous problem that is destroying the southeast region as well as the world, day by day. From our land and waters to our health, our world is crumbling beneath us, leaving little to no warning and putting our future in jeopardy at each passing moment. The Southeast is a region intensely impacted by frequent intense weather occurrences. Ranging from tornadoes to hurricanes, the southeast is easily one of the most …show more content…

Many believe in climate change but, very little see the adverse effects on our world or to personal self. Climate change is not seeable, therefore the public eye is quick to judge that it may be real but, the effects are not personal. This perception is likely a means to an end. Media has much to do with how we receive and perceive our information. Media outlets will run stories on climate change to cover different agendas within politics and the community, however, this information is bare and nearly non-existent. Scholars Wanyun Shao and Kirby Goidel explained of public opinion scholar John Zaller in their article about climate change perceptions in the gulf coast region,
“The information environment, of which the mass media constitutes a great portion, does not provide clear pictures of complicated issues like climate change. By framing news stories as science controversies and falsely balancing sources, the news media helps create the image of an unsettled scientific debate despite an overwhelming scientific consensus. To further complicate matters, different media outlets self-select materials that conform to their political ideologies and/or editorial agendas.” (Shao,

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In the article ‘Why Bother?’ Michael Pollan, a Professor of Journalism at the University of California, examines the dangers of climate change and how ordinary citizens can reduce its effects on the environment. Although most scientists are concerned and have warned nations of its disastrous effects some still deny the existence of climate change. As if melting ice caps and the ever-increasing blue waters were not enough proof, some citizens believe that climate change is an “unproven theory or a negligible contribution to natural climate variability” (Hall 3). Nevertheless, citizens who believe in global warning can change how they live for the better.

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Global warming has been a growing issue to global security, with nations all around the world working to ease the soon possible negative effects. Throughout the world; many media outlets and sources online have covered and have formally addressed this topic. Each media and sources all holds bits of truths inside of them, however, all cannot be entirely unbiased. Most if not online sources covering this topic; list good reasons to battle climate change, due to this they all have their own manipulative techniques used to persuade the audience, favoring the liberal side CNN writes sources and has experts in specific fields to cover a topic relating to their political agenda, Nasa being a very pro-science uses logos to persuade the audience, CNS

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The human race has taken the planet under our control, but now we must keep the peace with the environment on which we so heavily depend--this is a crucial part of Elizabeth Kolbert’s main argument in her book Field Notes from a Catastrophe. However, while scientific evidence, climate models, and visible effects of global warming all work together in presenting a sound case for political action to be taken against further warming, there is a noticeable lack of actual policy-making. Kolbert points out that both the Clinton Administration and the Bush Administration failed to treat global warming as a political issue of top priority. Similarly, Fred Powledge highlights in his article “Scientists, Policymakers, and a Climate of Uncertainty” that current government officials continue to publicly question the validity of scientific evidence that proves human activity has directly affected the progression of climate change and actively cease to support legislation that works to mitigate further warming. While the majority of scientists agree that global warming is escalating at an unprecedented rate due to human activity, both Kolbert and Powledge agree that many politicians have yet to treat climate change as a serious issue that demands immediate action, and point out that some refuse to admit that it is even an

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We see the evidence every day, for example the unpredictable weather patterns like milder winters, severe snow storms, the polar vortex, torrential rains, severe droughts, hotter than normal summers, an increase in tropical storms, and the rising sea levels. Also, the glaciers and polar ice caps are melting at an increased rate. Policymakers were given summary reports that were completed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I (Solomon, et al., 2007). These reports have supporting evidence that climate change is very real and affecting all

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In Steve McIlwaines article “Journalism, Climate Science and the Public: Towards Better Practices (2013)”. It is stated the “mass media”, particularly reporters or journalists, are understandably a key source of public communication about the clear fundamental issues of global climate change (2013, pg. 47). He also explains journalists show apparent variations among scientists by their willingness to report “political and economic debate surrounding climate change,” (McIlwaine, 2013, pp.47-48). Researchers suggest rises in public awareness of the existence of climate change, however the awareness is not supplied with “understanding of what climate change is,” (McIlwaine, 2013, p.48). The author believes that given attention of specific conditions,

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When it comes to climate change we all practice cognitive dissonance, and it's because the science is difficult to comprehend. In Naomi Klein's book, This Changes Everything Capitalism vs. The Climate, "I told myself the science was too complicated and that the environmentalists were dealing with it . . . A great many of us engage in this kind of climate change denial" (2015, pg.3). Moreover, for example, just because my classmates took a course in environmental policy it doesn’t mean that they will come out as environmentalist. It takes a lot of understanding, because climate change involves multiple disciplines.

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On the other hand we also have careless anti-climate change activists who believe that climate change is simply foolish therefore they neglect the fact that climate change is well and truly on its way to being impossible to ignore any longer. As for the public’s views and insights on the devastating importance of climate change they have created a brick wall blocking off relevant and desperately needed information on climate change. Therefore some audiences have no clue of the dangers our atmosphere is in, leaving them careless to the issue whereas others have an educated idea but have not taken any

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In a 2017 Gallup Poll, 3% of Americans found this issue to be an important problem (Gallup, 2017). Even though the issue of global warming is currently producing more “destructive hurricanes and longer and more damaging wildfire seasons” (Union of Concerned Scientists, 2017). Global warming does not appear to meet the standard of a mainstream issue because it lacks controversy. Though there is a proportion of the population who does not believe that global warming is occuring, scientific evidence as well as visible changes in our weather patterns assert that this issue is real. The federal government,

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Next, on the news there is usually a debate on climate change so some think that it is a common belief and it shifts their beliefs. According to the The Huffington Post less than third of American citizens agree that climate change is real. For a country that has 318.9 million

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Climate change is a subject that is relevant to all living beings on Earth, yet it is underrepresented and in some cases even ignored by the media and the public. In the article Climate Change as News, Andrew C. Revkin states that the general topic of climate change is very difficult for journalists and reporters to cover for its lack of calamity when compared to other disasters and “FrontPage worthy” titles, and for its complexity that makes understanding this topic difficult for regular people. In The Missing Climate Change Narrative, Segal expands on this idea of climate change being ineffectively communicated by explaining how a lack of emotional appeal and a good narrative are two of the main reasons for why people are not convinced of

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Support & Opposition: Public and expert opinion on how to combat climate change exasperated natural disasters differs among specific regions. After studying public opinion, and interviewing experts on both climate change and the Caribbean, we have reached the conclusion that there is a large difference of opinions regarding climate change between the regions. Those from the United States, in both public opinion and from experts, were less likely to be wary of climate change and natural disasters resulting from it. In contrast, the public and experts from the Caribbean are more vocal in their beliefs of to climate change and the natural disasters it creates. This means that it is import to focus on promoting climate change in the United States through education, media and policy to make the public

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They also point out that global warming consensus is not based on science, but for the political purpose. From my perspective, the severity of climate change indeed can affect the decisions of policy-makers, such as green policy and governance. But it does not mean that people can just ignore the consequences of the enormous emission of greenhouse gases in the past few decades. First of all, countries in Latin America and Africa tend to concern more about climate change issue than other regions. I have noticed that the majority of climate change skeptics mentioned in the documentary were from U.S..

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The other argument I’ve heard fairly consistently is the fact that the shifting climate is totally normal and they will believe in the idea of climate change but they refuse to believe that humans have any significant impact. Glaciers are melting and the climate is changing and we humans believe ourselves to be all powerful expect when it comes to changing our climate; so what is it, are we or aren’t we having an impact on our climate? In order to tackle such a controversial and heavily politicized topic there are a few foundational statements that need to be laid out. First we need to define what climate change is.

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In fact, denying climate change will only harm society and the Earth further; because by denying it, those who deny climate change are willingly aiding the damage and the danger climate change brings. Climate change is denied is due to the prioritization of business and the economy. Large corporations create their products with uncostly materials, in order to profit more, and those materials are more-often-than-not non-renewable resources or cause damage to the Earth. These corporations prefer to not be targeted with accusations of the unethical damage they are causing. Therefore, they create propaganda against climate change, they create doubt among their customers.

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Global climate change constitutes arguably the single most important threat to mankind. From the onset of the industrial revolution, greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), including carbon dioxide (CO2) have increasingly built up in the atmosphere, causing the climate to warm up slowly but steadily (IPCC, 2014). NASA predicts that 2016 will mark the hottest year on record. The effects of global warming are ubiquitous: Greenland’s glacier and the Arctic ice cap are melting, ocean levels are rising, occurrences of extreme weather are increasing, including hurricanes and areas of either intense drought or flooding. Collectively, these changes and their direct consequences are an imminent danger and they directly affect other urgent issues humanity is

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