Climate Change is a Natural Phenomenon

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Climate change has been an extremely controversial topic in recent history and continues to create much debate today. Many questions concerning climate change’s origins and its potential affect on the globe are not fully understood and remain unanswered. What is climate change? Is climate change happening? Is it a natural cycle of the world or are there other catalysts involved such as human activity? What proof is there? What data correlations show climate change is accelerated by humans? How serious is climate change and how will it affect the future of our globe? What are we doing to address climate change? Should we really be concerned about climate change? Questions such as these have made climate change a very serious issue in today’s world and created the ideology of climatism. The issue of climate change has affected many different aspects of our lives and the world we live in. Policymaking, human activism, technologies, emission control, global warming, alternative energy sources and many other things have been greatly affected by the mania of climate change. This research report will present climate change in a light of common sense and rationality that will take a grounded discussion of the science behind climate change, global warming, human activity, and how the ideology of climatism has corrupted and driven the actions to combat climate change. According to (Goreham, 2011), climatism is the belief that man-made greenhouse gasses such as CO2 are destroying the earth’s climate. The idea of climatism has been widely accepted by many scientists, executives, politicians, and leaders of our world. With the acceptance of climatism, there come extreme activists and prophets of doom for our planet. At the foref... ... middle of paper ... ...0). Eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet. New York, NY: Times Books Schmidt, G. A., R. A. Ruedy, R. L. Miller, & A. A. Lacis (2010), Attribution of the present‐day total greenhouse effect, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D20106, doi:10.1029/2010JD014287. Sierra Club. (2014). Green transportation solutions: clean cars. Retrieved from http://www.sierraclub.org/transportation/cleancars/default.aspx Singer, S.F., Avery, D. (2007). Unstoppable global warming every 1500 years. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc Solomon, S. (Ed.). (2007). Climate change 2007-the physical science basis: Working group I contribution to the fourth assessment report of the IPCC (Vol. 4, pg 501). Cambridge University Press. Unites States Green Building Council. (2014). Leadership in energy and environmental design. Retrieved from http://www.usgbc.org/leed#why

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