Read the article titled "Greening the Globe." According to the section titled "The Contention," the debate over climate change has two basic camps of thought. Identify these two camps and their beliefs. Give examples of who supports each one and explain what evidence they use to support their arguments. Based on these arguments, which way of thinking do you agree with and why? (Site 1)

Identify these two camps and their beliefs.

The two camps are the people who believe that climate change - and in particular the global warming - is a human-made change in the environment and we should do something to address it, while the other side is the people who believe that climate change is a natural phenomenon and so there is nothing we can do about it.

Give examples of who supports each one.

People who support the idea that climate change is man-made are nearly all scientists that have experience in the field of climate and environment, and other people who support the evidence provided by those scientists.

People who support the idea that climate change is a natural phenomenon are politicians, people who work in the industries that are accused of having fueled the change in the environment, and usually sporadic scientists who work for people who have interest in negating the evidence of climate change.

Explain what evidence they use to support their arguments.

People who support the idea that climate change is man-made use some evidence provided by scientific studies: the CO2 concentration over the years that is constantly increasing, due to the fact we burn more CO2 than before, the rise of sea temperature and acidity, the extreme and unprecedented weather patterns, the loss of ice at the poles.

People who support the idea that climate change is a natural phenomenon uses as evidence the idea that climate constantly changed over the course of the history of Earth, so there are no proofs that this change is man-made or even the idea that since some winters are colder than the previous years, this is a proof of the fact that climate change is not real or it is not man-made.

Which way of thinking do you agree with?

After reading the article, and looking a bit around the Internet, I agree with the scientists that support the idea that climate change is man-made. The pieces of evidence are enough, and the consensus over this topic is more than 95%, so in my opinion, the climate is changing because of our behaviour.

why?

Because of the pieces of evidence that are a lot, and because once you understand how the climate works, and how every action we made has an effect on the climate, the idea that the climate is changing because of us represents only the next step. Because even if this could be only a myth, what could be the consequences of acting on climate change? A better environment. On the other side, even if the global warming is real, we are on a dangerous track that could lead to serious consequences for all of us.