Climate Change: Fighting The Fighting

Everyone has an opinion on climate change. Perhaps that is half the problem.

I have been working on the Internet for a long time now, and I was certainly one of the first generations to grow up with it. So I’m baffled as to why is it that climate change has captured the attention of everyone online who fancies an argument. I spend a lot of time reading climate change related articles and studies, and after every one there is a que of hundreds of comments of people bickering about weather or not climate change is happening, and/or wether it is man made or not, often completely ignoring the actual content of the article. But after everything I have read, do I really know the truth about climate change?

So what is the real argument here? Well on one side we have those who believe that climate change is happening as a direct result of human activity, specifically emitting CO2 from burning fossil fuels, causing a greenhouse effect that is warming the planet. The opposing side will call these people “Climate Alarmists”. On the other end of the argument are those who believe that global warming has been made up by the governments of the world to increase taxation and further control us. The “Alarmists” call them “Climate Denialists” or “Deniers”.

There is no middle ground here. Even supposedly unbiased newspapers and editors will generally cover climate change stories from one side of the fence. This is where the problem really lies. We depend on these people for unbiased Facts. News should not be opinion, only facts. This is where the Internet becomes the destruction of common sense.

I wrote in an article a while back that the Internet a dangerous thing. It’s full of information, so much so that we now spend all day everyday absorbing it. But absorbing it without thinking about what we have actually read. This is what is happening with the climate change argument. The Internet is overwhelmed with ‘Opinion’ on climate change. Sure the Facts are there, but the are so overwhelmed by opinion that they are just getting lost in the haze. Anyone can build a website and publish data on global warming, but it doesn’t make it true. The next thing you know 50,000 people have read it, and before they have had time to think about what it actually meant or said, they are sharing it with someone else.

So all these people arguing on the Internet about climate change: Just stop and think! Unless you are a climatologists you DON’T know what is happening for sure. That’s a fact! You can read the news articles and blog posts as much as you want: unless you have witnessed evidence first hand you only have opinion. This is a Global problem that needs to be researched and resolved by the best and brightest in the World on hard Factual Evidence. Not someone writing blog posts. Not someone being funded by an oil company. And NOT people arguing on the Internet! (Oh the Irony…)

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