Climate Catastrophe: Going Back and Fourth

Global warming has been going on for some time now and people are just now starting to take real notice on it. Sure, we had Al Gore and we had the Prius before hybrid energy was “cool” and things like that but, no one really cared until it popped up on the news every other day, or until their home was destroyed by a hurricane like Sandy, or Katrina, whichever came first.

Global warming in of itself is pretty simple to understand. It’s the steady rise in temperatures that has been occurring for a very long time. Now the question is; are humans the biggest factor that has caused this warming? And that’s where the arguments come in.

On the for side, global warming never really picked up until the industrial revolution. Once factories started to appear in European and American cities the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere started to rise, and has continued to rise ever since. As the temperatures rise, the more deadly the natural disasters become as well. Remember what I said about Sandy or Katrina knocking on your door? Well as the temperatures rise, hurricanes like those will become more common, along with droughts, floods, and heavier rains, and that’s bad for everybody.

On the against side, they don’t dispute that humans are definitely contributing to global warming. They say that global warming didn’t pick up because of humans, instead that it’s simply a part of the natural cycle. Elmer Beauregard, one of said people, says that the climate consensus, which is that group where 96–97% of climate scientists believe global warming is real and is man-made, says that it’s the other way around and that they say it isn’t.