Global warming is not a fact and the precautions being made are far from necessary

Michael Ragotte

Through media, movies, and ill informed politicians, people are beginning to believe global warming is not a scientific debate, but rather an impending doom. The latter is far from true. Although no one can say for sure whether Global Warming does or does not exist, taking this phenomenon as fact is certainly not the correct response. As scientists dig deeper into their research, both sides become stronger. Although there is evidence that supports the existence of global warming, there are also many scientists in agreement the warming that occurs is only cyclical, and the earth can heat up and cool down with or without human activity.

Society is leaning more and more towards global warming issues and taking them as fact. Science and researchers that devote time, money and their efforts to disprove global warming are being shunned within the media. In films like ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ scientists that oppose global warming are seen as bad guys, people working for massive oil companies that don’t care about the world. Considering a lot of the research disproving global warming was developed by scientists working under government grants, one should be aware these scientists are far from the evil ones as seen on cartoons. It is not fair for society to scourge these scientists that work so hard trying to understand the world around us.

At the conference on climate change in 2009 located in Copenhagen, many countries were told that global warming is an immediate threat and must be handled accordingly. According to Chad Everett of Business Green, Denmark proposed that developed nations should cut their emissions by 80 percent to combat the problem.

In order to do this massive reduction in emissions, the economies of the world would take a colossal hit, and suffer enormously under the constraints to reduce global emissions. This huge reduction in emissions and the economy is a big price to pay for a disaster that may not ever occur. Evidently, the task was removed from the Copenhagen agreement because countries were not willing to make a large commitment to something that is not scientifically proven.

Although it is good to be environmentally aware, it’s not always good to jump at the first sign of smoke, maybe it is better to see the fire first. There are many other environmental problems where there are fires burning that need to be made aware in the media. The issues regarding over fishing and over population are much more severe environmental problems that need to be attended too. Remember, just because Al Gore says that global warming is going to kill us, doesn’t mean it’s true.