The ISCFC is all about reducing our individual and collective contributions to climate change.
But is climate change really happening? Is it mostly caused by human activity, including our production of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases?
In the United States and elsewhere, there are people who are not convinced by the science. But the great thing about science is that we use evidence to evaluate scientific questions. So what is the evidence related to climate change?
Are you or are you not convinced by the majority of climate scientists who say that climate change is real and largely human caused? Why are you convinced/not convinced? What evidence might change your mind one way or the other?
Is Climate Change Real & Human-Caused? >
Yes, climate change is real and human-caused.
There is vast consensus among scientists that climate change is real. A 2009 study of over 3,000 climate-related scientists found that over 90% of them agreed that the globe has warmed and that humans are a significant cause of this warming. There is a plethora of evidence that climate change is happening. CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been rising and are abnormally high, and heat levels are gradually rising.
It is also supported by evidence that human emissions are by far the main cause of this. Climate scientists have been able to separate environmental and human causes, and calculate various futures, depending on what action countries take. Without human activity, climate change would not be happening at even nearly the scale that it is.
"Models that account only for the effects of natural processes are not able to explain the warming observed over the past century. Models that also account for the greenhouse gases emitted by humans are able to explain this warming."
71% of global carbon emissions are produced by just 100 companies. So, the conversation around climate change should be predominantly concerned with systematic solutions such as green energy and regulations, rather than with individual action. These solutions are predicted to be successful if implemented soon enough and well enough. By reducing just 0.4% of global GDP, carbon emissions could be reduced by 54% by 2030 [ source ]. Green energy is ideal not only because it doesn't harm the environment, but because it has far lower rates of deaths per amount of energy generated.
Denying or downplaying climate change is nothing but playing meaningless, delusional defense for the corporations that are willing to destroy the world just to preserve the oceans of stagnant money in their bank accounts.