Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its new findings on Global Warming.
To put it quite bluntly, the news is not good.
In fact, their new report supports that global warming is indeed real and not just a good theory, as its disclaimers would say.
It may come as no shock to some readers that our climate and weather has become more severe over time.
However, there are always those scientists who say that there is not enough cause to believe that the phenomenon known as global warming is in fact a real thing.
Most commonly the scientists who detract from climate change say that there needs to be more time to investigate climate change to see if we actually need to do something about it or if humans actually have anything to do with global warming.
Many news segments that ran the story of the ICPP’s new findings also included a small tag at the end featuring the opinions of the detractors.
Scientific findings should always be debated. That is, of course, how you test to see if the findings are indeed true and not a work of speculative fiction.
We understand that.
But, at a certain point, the logical part of our brains should kick in and say, “Maybe there is something going on here….”
Every living organism on this planet affects another.
Is it not logical to assume that all the waste product that humans put into the air is the cause of some event in our environment?
We know that C02 contributes to the destruction of our ozone and even contributes to what is commonly referred to as the greenhouse effect.
Al Gore may not have been entirely right when he put out his Nobel Prize and Academy Award-winning film An Inconvenient Truth, but at least he never turned a blind eye to the logical conclusion that human activity is playing role in the great ecodrama known as climate change.
There is a certain level of ignorance in those news features that run the counter science with the stories that talk about global warming as a truly occurring event.
At a certain point, though, we have to say with certainty that the world is round, the solar system truly does revolve around the sun and not Earth, and that climate change is a phenomenon that is occurring and humans are playing a role within it.
The question is then always raised as to what we can do to slow climate change down.
Average people can always try to cut down the use of their individual emissions.
For massive change, however, big businesses and our government will have to get behind the movement as well as the governments and businesses of India and China.
And before that happens the naysayers will have to stop saying nay and simply follow through to the logical conclusion that humans are in fact contributing to climate change and that our climate is in fact changing.
But the more we waste time with petty arguments, the deeper trouble we dig ourselves into.
The Xavierite Staff
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