Climate Change: Real? Or Really Exaggerated? Angel Martinez, Issac Santana, and Steven Camey

A Fossil Fueled Economy Fossil fuels are one of the main sources driving the world economy, and based on the abundance of fossil fuels, will affect the value of all products worldwide. This one main resource can be a strength and a hindrance, but that, as said before, is dependent on its abundance. With this knowledge, it can be inferred that if we were to try to switch to a different resource, yes, we would be able to potentially lower CO2 in the atmosphere, but at the cost of the world’s economy.

The Paris Agreement What 147 parties (countries) agreed to, in false hope of preventing a sharp increase in global atmospheric temperatures is to spend trillions of dollars to intensify limits on CO2 side product production.. But in actuality, all it is, is a waste of time and money. Even the greatest, most bold scientific predictions with this agreement will only postpone global warming for a couple hundred years. Which even then, will not “save the world” only postpone our own destruction.

The Real Impact of Greenhouse Gases The truth is, greenhouse gases (primarily Carbon Dioxide) only compose 0.038 percent of the atmosphere. That’s less than a tenth of one percent. This miniscule amount should be more than enough proof for the claim that greenhouse-gas- caused global warming is nothing more than an exaggeration.

Polar Ice Caps and Ozone Layer Depletion What this diagram (from a Utah geological survey at Utah.gov) shows is the cycles of “hot” and “cold” periods over the last approximately 450,000 years. We can see that the Earth has undergone many climate changes before, and the one we are currently experiencing is nothing new. As a matter of fact, there were no prominent glaciers on Earth 30 million years ago.

Economics vs Science What is truly being affected here? The Earth or our economy? For years, the media and political climate change alarmists have fed the public inflated and tampered facts that climate change can and will have an extraordinary impact on Earth. Climate change would raise the temperature 1℃ to 2℃ (2℃ being a bold claim assuming that everything goes 100% correctly). Sure, climate change will have its cons and side effects, but it’s not like the Earth hasn’t done this 5 or so times before. Add 97%

Economics vs Science pt. 2 Because the media brainwashes individuals’ eyes that Climate Change is caused by fossil fuels, many start substituting for cheap products spending less money driving down the economy. Although hybrid cars cost about the same as gas powered cars ($30,000- $50,000 and more), they don't require gas, a big contributor to the economy. To power electric cars, electricity is needed to charge the battery but where does the electricity comes from? Most electricity comes from coal power plants. Coal releases much more CO2 than petroleum, so really, hybrid cars might just be worse than regular cars in the theory that climate change is anthropogenic.

What if we were to do something now? By this time, trying to help the atmosphere recover from its carbon dioxide overdose would be the equivalent of watering a rose which lost its petals. Having a means to actually stop these excess Co2 emissions would mean to contribute massive amounts of money to shut down crude oil plants and any other causes of CO2 emitting, which no country wants to do or can even afford to. Even this would barely make a dent in the problem at the cost of the economy crashing, since climate change is a natural occurrence.

What if we were to do something? pt.2 One source of atmosphere “poisoning” is, of course, the methane released by livestock, ie. sheep, cows, pigs, chickens and many more. The world’s agriculture will not stop because, everybody wants meat, and the demand for meat has increased over the years, in response to the ever growing human population more meat is needed to provide for carnivorous humans, and is valued by almost all people in the world in response to its former glory. In other words, everybody wants to live high off the hog.

Can there be a Real Solution? In all seriousness, there’s nothing that can actually be done anthropogenically to “prevent” climate change. As stated previously, we’ve gone through multiple fluctuations of temperatures (glacial and interglacial periods) before, and we’ll go through more in the future. What can be further noticed is that the temperature seems to consistently drop a few hundred years before the carbon dioxide.

Conclusion To answer the overarching question, no. “Global Warming,” better referred to as climate change, is going to affect the world only to about the same extent it has during the past 5 (or more) times. Humans aren’t the cause, and we certainly aren’t the solution. We just have to stop being so anxious about it.