The theory of climate change is complex and controversial, as the criteria isn’t strict. This makes it a challenge for the entirety of society to accept the theory, when many do not comprehend the theory itself. (4) Even though the theory of climate change has been around for quite a while, with much of the scientific community today supporting this theory, there are still deniers in both the scientific and worldwide communities. What are the characteristics of an accepted theory, and why is the climate change theory so different from other theories that have been encountered in the past? This essay will explore the roles and evidence of the climate change deniers and the scientific community as well as how these populations affect each other
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The definition of a theory in the scientific community is something that has the potential to be disproved, can be improved, can be used to predict and be rigorously tested. The evidence used by the scientific community includes the research of the effects of climate change on arctic regions such as Northern Alaska. (3) For a theory to be universally accepted, the evidence must be consistent. However, with the theory of climate change, its patterns, magnitude and mechanisms of change have sometimes been unpredictable or difficult to isolate due to compounding factors. Therefore, climate change deniers are not limited to those outside of the scientific community. The scientific community also must make sure that the relationship between climate change and their “affecters” are causal and not correlation. (2) Some other evidence that the scientific community uses includes the study of the species affected by climate change. Affected species may change migration habits and some may even deplete drastically in numbers. This is shown in areas most affected by climate change, which attributes to the theory of climate …show more content…
What contributes to their disagreement to the issue? In western areas such as America and Australia, climate change deniers can account their disagreement since those countries emit copious amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, with one-third of their respective populations claiming to be climate change deniers. Reducing the amount of carbon can affect the ease of production of resources, which explains the industry’s disagreement to the theory. Other than those in the industrial manufacturing of resources, much of the public are also climate change deniers. This suggests how many deniers are being misled by the media. Many of the attitudes of climate change deniers are affected by the cultural expression of a person’s values and political and ideological allegiances. These values shapes identity, producing motivation for the climate change deniers to stand a firm ground on the issue, critically judging any evidence found by the scientific community but accepting the evidence that is easily accessible to them via the media. The amount of climate change deniers in the public community are growing due to peer knowledge and the passing of information through groups of people. The habit of not acting pro-environmentally is concrete in much of the population, whether they are climate change deniers or not. This common habit is very detrimental to the chances that climate change will
The definition of a theory in the scientific community is something that has the potential to be disproved, can be improved, can be used to predict and be rigorously tested. The evidence used by the scientific community includes the research of the effects of climate change on arctic regions such as Northern Alaska. (3) For a theory to be universally accepted, the evidence must be consistent. However, with the theory of climate change, its patterns, magnitude and mechanisms of change have sometimes been unpredictable or difficult to isolate due to compounding factors. Therefore, climate change deniers are not limited to those outside of the scientific community. The scientific community also must make sure that the relationship between climate change and their “affecters” are causal and not correlation. (2) Some other evidence that the scientific community uses includes the study of the species affected by climate change. Affected species may change migration habits and some may even deplete drastically in numbers. This is shown in areas most affected by climate change, which attributes to the theory of climate …show more content…
What contributes to their disagreement to the issue? In western areas such as America and Australia, climate change deniers can account their disagreement since those countries emit copious amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, with one-third of their respective populations claiming to be climate change deniers. Reducing the amount of carbon can affect the ease of production of resources, which explains the industry’s disagreement to the theory. Other than those in the industrial manufacturing of resources, much of the public are also climate change deniers. This suggests how many deniers are being misled by the media. Many of the attitudes of climate change deniers are affected by the cultural expression of a person’s values and political and ideological allegiances. These values shapes identity, producing motivation for the climate change deniers to stand a firm ground on the issue, critically judging any evidence found by the scientific community but accepting the evidence that is easily accessible to them via the media. The amount of climate change deniers in the public community are growing due to peer knowledge and the passing of information through groups of people. The habit of not acting pro-environmentally is concrete in much of the population, whether they are climate change deniers or not. This common habit is very detrimental to the chances that climate change will