Climate Change - my presentation for class

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Slimebeast said:

highwaystar101 said:

Slimebeast said:

You're promoting the man-made climate change lie lol.

Which part's the lie?

I know you think you're being sceptical, but you're not. You're just nay-saying automatically.

I think that there are so many different aspects to consider with man made climate change that it is impossible to just have a universal answer of "yes" or "no" for the whole thing. Calling it by such an absolute term like "lie" is not right as far as I'm concerned.

I like to think I approach climate change sensibly (although I'm sure you'll disagree). There are lots of different phenomenon that come under the banner of climate change, some may be happening, some may not.

I don't buy into many of the climate changes that people say will happen as a result of man made emissions, I don't think it will "burn us alive" or anything like that. I do however, accept that some things are happening as a result of human emissions. Like I mentioned earlier, the oceans are becoming more acidic. This is due to CO2 emissions being absorbed by the ocean forming carbonic acid. The acidity has been rising since the industrial revolution, there is anatural absoption rate, but the rate has increased since we've been increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

I don't particularly have any reasonable doubt that climate change penomenon ocean acidification is happening, unlike some of the other phenomenon people claim, in which I do have doubt that they are happening.

Thanks for that (bold text).

I'm not talking irrelevant things like acidification of oceans (really, an increase in atmospheric CO2 from 300 ppm to 450 ppm, or whatever, will not acidify oceans in any major way. You will only read about it because someone measured it and tries to manipulate you with it, or at worst because a few fish and corals died in some remote reef).

I'm talking about the supposed threats and catastrophies caused by global temperatures and sea levels rising, violent storms increasing, tsunamis, droughts and forest fires etc - stuff that affects masses of people negatively, stuff that needs radical changes to our societies and lifestyles now. This threat called "climate change" (we all know why it changed name from "global warming") that all our Western societies are so concerned about. The myth that is sold to us by the IPCC, media and politicians.

I'm not sure if I do know.  Why did it change to climate change versus global warming?