Argumentative Essay On Climate Change

Can you imagine how the world will look like in 20 years based on recent climate change events? Climate change is a topic that has been ongoing due to an endless stream of new discoveries and events. Earth’s average temperature has increased by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century and is estimated to increase another 2 to 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit over the next hundred years (“Climate Change: Basic Information”). Change in climate is evident from the disastrous hurricanes, to increase in temperatures, and increase or decrease in precipitation. There have also been changes in oceans and glaciers; oceans are warming, ice caps are melting, and sea levels are rising. These changes are already becoming problems for society and the environment.

For instance, the author states that game theory has solved complex problems before. University of Washington AIDS researchers spent ten years to map the structure of an enzyme that could be a big part of a potential HIV treatment drug before presenting it online as a game called Foldit (Hansman 2014). Gamers helped solve the drug in 10 days. This encourages people that the game could be helpful not because we should feel guilty, but because it can help us understand more about climate change in an effective

In Janis L. Dickinson’s study, the impacts of climate change on people’s interest in taking action can be a precursor to intention but it does not necessarily lead to actual behavioral change (Dickinson 2013). Climate change is a dire problem, but there is evidence that framing it within contexts of threats can lead to opposite intended results. In the research, there were different ways that compared the way framing the problem of climate change affects people’s approach levels. The participants were people who expressed interest in the YardMap Network, a citizen science project that allows people to enter data through visual, map-based, and social networks (Dickinson 2013). Ninety-seven percent of the participants were birders, defined in the survey as people who were “Interested in or actively watch birds” (Dickinson 2013). There were two hypotheses. One was that positive frames outperform negative frames when the object of danger is humans, and the other hypothesis was the previously untested hypothesis that the object of negative framing matters (Dickinson 2013). The participants were at least 18 years old with 68 percent being over 50. Participants receiving the negative “danger to birds” frame and two positive collective action frames exhibited increased interest in carbon footprint activity compared to collective frames (Dickinson 2013). On the contrary, when participants were reminded of a danger to humans, their