The first breaking news in this June is
that President Trump announced the U.S. will pull out of the Paris accord on
global warming. Almost all voices on various medias are accusing Trump for not
considering the future of the earth, whilst Trump either didn’t believe the greenhouse
findings or he decided that it’s more important to recover American economy.
There are multiple types of gases that are
considered to contribute to the greenhouse effect, e.g. water vapour, carbon
dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all blocks the heat radiation from the earth
to the space. Even though the global warming becomes the most important
sustainable topic around the world, and a number of political and economic
deals have been made, there are still many different voices questioning this
theory.
I support the sustainable development
because this is essential for a better life of all human-beings and our kids in
future. I have seen how much damage the industrial pollution and destroy of
eco-system have made to our life. However, I am not very convinced by the
anti-carbon-dioxide trend and kind of support Trump on this particular issue.
Like many others, I am questioning: 1. Is
there really a global warming issue? 2. If there is a trend of global warming,
is it really the human activity that caused it? 3. Even it is true that
human/industrial activities changed the temperature, is the carbon dioxide
really responsible for the problem?
The change of climate is generally measured
with a scale of hundreds of years or even longer, whilst the term of globally
warming only existed for decades. Geological evidences suggest that either
warmer or colder climate are commonly found in the past, and the temperatures
were a lot higher or lower than the current average. And a main cause of such
temperature change is often related to the radiation from the sun.
Anyway, either party in the global warming
debate has found figures and theories to support or oppose the idea. It is also
too hard at this stage to identify if reducing carbon-dioxide would prevent the
global warming is a post-truth or not. Apparently, Donald Trump has selected to
prioritise the real economy on top of reducing the CO2 emission. In my opinion,
this may not lead to any sustainable crisis but is a quite realistic move for a
better life of US people.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/09/top-10-global-warming-lies-that-may-shock-you/
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