The Climate Change Debate

President Obama told america that “isn’t something in the distant future, climate change is effecting us now.” While Obama has been in office he has been constantly trying to raise awareness of our actions and the impacts on the environment but a Gallup Politics Poll revealed that one in four U.S. citizens are “solidly skeptical” of global warming.

This was alarming to me to find this information but I honestly think it should have no effect on what we do about climate change. Climate change is a fact. There is no denying that “global temperatures are rising, heat waves are becoming more common, and glaciers are melting” (John Oliver). Even though some americans are skeptical, the government and the people need to react and try to change how we treat the environment.

This gallup politics poll was just a poll. A study was then done examining thousands of research papers by climate scientists and 97.1% of the scientists “supported the fact that humans are causing global warming.” I think the reason that 25% of americans are skeptical about climate change is because when americans hear about this debate on the reality of climate change, the media sits down two people. One for the reality of climate change and the other against climate change. This just an idea but a one on one conversation makes a debate seem much more even than it may actually be.

On John Oliver, he had a climate change debate but instead of making it one on one, he made it representative of the statistics of scientists. He brought out 97 climate scientists for the reality of climate change and 3 for the opposition. The debate was a joke on TV but made a more realistic idea on what the majority of the scientific community believes.