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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Humanity’s role in climate change
With humanity’s obsession with carbon and its many uses also comes with tremendously detrimental effects on our climate. The amount of carbon that we are emitting is astounding and it is warming our planet and changing our climate extremely quickly. We as a society need to create changes regarding our carbon footprint.
I agree that humanity needs a wake-up call and needs to take global warming and climate change seriously. We as a society use so much carbon through transportation, pollution, food, items, and much more. We need to do simple things such as recycling, moving to paper, instead of plastic, using less gas, and using more electric transportation or walking. We can take shorter showers and turn off the lights when we are not using them. In all Humanity is causing global warming, but that doesn't mean we can't stop it, we have the power to end climate change!
I agree. Climate change is definitely being caused by humans releasing carbon dioxide into the environment. There have been many other fluctuations in the climate throughout history, but the climate crisis we are facing currently is different than past changes in the climate because it is happening at a much, much faster rate. The organisms living on earth during previous changes were able to move and adapt to the new changes, but this time it is happening too fast for the living things on earth to survive it if we don't find a solution fast.