Are the effects of global warming really that bad or are there any misinformation and exaggerations on the topic?

English 201

Haonan Qian

Ronald Holland

2/07/2022

Global Warming

Are the effects of global warming really that bad or are there any misinformation and exaggerations on the topic?

Thesis: Although the recent climate changes in the world should be a matter of concern, the effect of global warming has been highly exaggerated and politicized resulting in misleading strategies, which do not address the real problem competently.

Literature Review

Global warming is the overheating of the earth by the sun, which was discovered after the preindustrial period and is associated with environmentally unfriendly human activities (Al-Yasiri & Géczi, 2021). However, the whole topic of global warming has ignited biased opinions, exaggerations, politics, and most people discuss the issue with partiality. It is observable that there have been risky trends in climate in various parts of the world, but the impact of the changes may not be as bad as reported.

In an earlier study, “Politicization and polarization of climate change,” it is noted that politics has to lead to mistrust by raising politically attached interests in discussing the whole topic (Grassle, 2021). For instance, in America, the republicans such as George Bush must support environmental legislations strategies but doubted the science behind climate change (Grassle, 2021). According to the article, most environmental pollution is from oil and gas companies (Grassle, 2021). These companies are the most profitable and powerful in the world, which makes decisions on regulating them so inclined. As a result, the solutions and policies developed to counter climate change end up subjective and directed on the wrong areas to protect political agendas.

In the past, WHO has given very misleading information on the impact that would be caused by global warming. (Goklany, 2012). In a certain 2014 report WHO claimed that in the coming 10 to 30 years, climate change would cause over 95000 deaths per year. Scrutiny on these results done by Indur M Goklany in the article, “Unhealthy exaggeration The WHO report on climate change,” demonstrates how some of such data lack scientific evidence (Goklany, 2012). WHO admits to making estimations that ignore commonsense adaptations, using undependable technology and methodologies in predicting the impact of climate change (Goklany, 2012). WHO is the most dependable source of information, and giving imprecise results is ambiguous to the public.

Though climate change advocacy has campaigned everywhere in the world, the real problem is still unaddressed. There are numerous misinterpretations of data and bogus strategies to tackle the challenge (Das & Pathak, 2020). Climate change has been used to distract young populations from the challenges in life and garner their attention to climate change concerns. Popular media is used to spread wrong information, for instance, the inevitability of global warming and the underestimation of individual efforts in solving the crisis (Das & Pathak, 2020). When there is copious wrong information everywhere, more wrong decisions and fruitless noise is made.
Global warming is not all bad and it is some enormous advantages to some biomes. Climate change should be addressed without biases if adequate solutions are to be developed. That includes highlighting the advantages and disadvantages together to get the best solution. Some benefits of global warming include better agriculture yields, lower energy costs, richer biodiversity, and probably fewer droughts. A research, “Global warming benefits the small in aquatic ecosystems” indicates that climate has massive significance in some aquatic ecosystems (Daufresne et al., 2009). The fact that there is lesser research done on the advantages of global change is evidence the entire outlook of the topic is biased.
Most scientific research articles such as “Global Warming Potential: Causes and Consequences” insist that global warming is a national hazard with tremendous damage (Al-Yasiri & Géczi, 2021). According to this article is the leading cause of many diseases in living things, and the information should be trusted for a better future (Al-Yasiri & Géczi, 2021).
It is still clear that global warming is a critical topic yet it is flooded with numerous exaggerations, manipulations, and politics making it hard to separate the truth from the lies.

References

Al-Yasiri, Q., & Géczi, G. (2021). Global Warming Potential: Causes and Consequences. Academia Letters, 2-4. https://doi.org/10.20935/al3202

Daufresne, M., Lengfellner, K., & Sommer, U. (2009). Global warming benefits the small in aquatic ecosystems. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 106(31), 12788-12793. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0902080106

Grassle, W. (2021). The Politicization and Polarization of Climate Change. Claremont Colleges, (1), 14-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547019900290

Goklany, I. (2012). UNHEALTHY EXAGGERATION The WHO report on climate change. Wires Climate Change, 3(6), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.194