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? >
How Climate Change Works
Some people may be wondering, what are the effects of climate change? Well I could tell you, but first you need to know how climate change happens. Climate change is caused when carbon emissions from the populus float up into the atmosphere and trap the sun’s rays around earth, basically cooking the world like an oven. And more and more people keep emitting these carbon emissions, so the world keeps heating up.
Ok so what does this do? The world heating up causes all the ice to start melting, and that causes the ocean to rise because of all the ice melt. In the video “Climate Change 101” (narrated by Bill Nye) he states that the increasing temperature can throw off our entire hydrological cycle, more evaporation leads to more precipitation, like extreme storms will be more common. Due to the sea levels rising and increase in precipitation towns below sea level will flood harming thousands of people.