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?
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Rise of Carbon emissions
There's been an observable rise in the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere coinciding with our increase of population. The greater number of people, the more we need to produce to sustain the population. This is evident in the motor vehicles that we have. The increase in carbon jumped higher and higher since the 50s, and so did the number of vehicles available to everyone in society. Sure, we have electric and hybrid vehicles, but even those produce waste in the production of said vehicles, perhaps even moreso than conventional cars. The batteries needed to make those cars create large amounts of pollution. I'm not saying that electric vehicles are bad, but there needs to be an alternative source of power than those batteries.
One thing that comes to mind is when I was a child in Japan, there was a program about these 2 men that traveled all of Japan in a solar powered can, and could use some power stored to drive at night as well. Perhaps solar energy doesn't get the recognition it deserves.