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? >
Is Climate Change Real and Human-Caused?
Climate change is definitely real, and there's a lot of proof to show that. For example, the increasing number of natural disasters, temperatures rising, extreme weather, etc. While the climate fluctuates naturally over time, humans have accelerated the pace temperatures are rising by burning fossil fuels so much that we don't have time to adjust, and we need to act now.
I completely agree humans have affected the process, for example in the area where i live (north Italy)glaciers are shrinking a lot. I think to reduce carbon dioxide emissions we should use more renewable resorces even in our small. ![]()
I agree with you about the fact that humans have sped up climate change. We do a lot of things which can often result into climate change. More people need to be aware of climate change and how we can stop it or just even slowing it down.
I believe that climate change is not only real, but very much human caused. If you compare the temperature rises in the past few centuries to the past couple of millenia, you can clearly see that nowhere does the temperature change as quickly as it did here. Along with that, if you compare the rising temperatures with a graph of carbon dioxide changes, you will easily see the correlation. The rising temperature graph follows the carbon dioxide changes, but a little behind, as seen in this graph. Along with that, if you compare the increase in carbon dioxide to human population, you will see another correlation, where the carbon dioxide levels only started rising drastically after human population started experiencing exponential growth. If you also compare this to major world events, you will see that all of this started at the same time that the industrial revolution happened. All this evidence points to climate change being real, and human caused, but to fix this problem we definitely need to start using renewable resources, or soon the problem will be too big to fix at all.
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