Synthesis On Climate Change

While climate change is a serious and potentially catastrophic prospect, it is still widely debated by many both informed and uninformed. However, those who are climate change supporters claim that we have an obligation to rectify this change caused by human influences before it is too late. The Climate Change 2013 (AR5) Synthesis Report is a collection based on reports made by three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with the inclusion of special reports. This Synthesis Report is grounded on the workings of hundreds of scientists around the world. This work includes a level of confidence for most assessments being made throughout the account. Overall, when it comes to observed changes in climate change, …show more content…
Additionally, “It is very likely that human influence has contributed to the observed global scale changes in the frequency and intensity of daily temperature extremes since the mid-20th century.” (IPCC …show more content…
The article, Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks, written by Dunlap and Jacques, discusses how conservative speakers often use less credited and evaluated climate change denial books. The article also examines how these books offer a sense of legitimacy to authors and how they often, “come to be viewed as “climate experts,” regardless of their academic back-grounds or scientific credentials” (Dunlap and Jacques 701). The article’s case that anti-climate change activists often base their arguments on clearly unfounded literature lines up with my beliefs as well. I believe that lack of information is just as detrimental to the cause of climate change. Despite how many times these denial books are debunked by empirical tests they are repeatedly recycled by the conservative agenda. This is what Dunlap and Jacques refer to as “zombie arguments”. These zombie arguments are critical to climate change support and can mean the difference for what our world will look like a hundred years from