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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Human contributions to climate change
Humans do contribute an astronomical amount to climate change, many things just in our daily routine. Cars and fossil fuels are typically what the media focuses on, but in reality there are other causes. For example, the burger you ate last week, produces crazy amounts of methane. This is the underlying cause of climate change, animal agriculture. Going vegan is a great way to make a change in your personal carbon foot print. It takes incredible amounts of water to feed cows, if there is less demand, less resources will be unreasonably used.
On Earth, human exercises are changing the greenhouse. Over the century the burning of fossil powers like coal and oil has expanded the concentration of carbon dioxide. This happens since the coal or oil burning combines carbon with oxygen within the air to create CO2. The clearing of land for agriculture, industry, and other human exercises has increased the amount of greenhouse gases. So, to conclude climate change is human-caused due to the many fossil fuels humans release.