TOW #23- The False Alert of Global Warming

In 2016, if you heard someone say that they don't believe that global-warming is real, you would probably think that they are crazy, illogical, and completely outdated.  Before reading this article written my Tom Bethell, I would have acted the same way in that type of situation.  However, this article, titled, "The False Alert of Global Warming" opened my eyes to see that there is definitely a possibility that global-warming may just be something environmentalists are using for revenue.  By setting up a counter-argument formatted article, Bethell was able to disprove many arguments that environmentalists make to try and prove that global-warming is a serious crisis.  Though he seems a bit bias at some points, Bethell was correct in thinking that global-warming is not as serious of a crisis as environmentalists argue that it is.

One of his main points was centered on the fact that environmentalist Michael Mann used a “hockey stick” chart that completely skewed temperatures from the past.  Bethell points out that, “Once doomsayers convince us that we are experiencing something new, they feel free to claim that we face a catastrophe.” Therefore, by using a hockey stick chart that only shows an increase in temperature in modern times, environmentalists completely disregard any temperature variations in the past.   By ignoring the ice age, and warm periods that “science” has already proven, environmentalists can easily persuade audiences that the current global-warming is a catastrophe, simply because it is new.  Even if it was true that this was a new occurrence, this is still not proper means to define something as a catastrophe.  The fact that Mann, a “nonscientist”, with support of several environmentalists tried to present this chart to the United Nations to gain support for their cause to save the Earth from this incredibly life-threatening imagination is ridiculous, and Bethell uses this to show that global-warming is not as concrete of a fact as much of our population takes it to be.

Truthfully, I have not spent much time or thought on global-warming, because I thought that it was just a current event, something factual, and something widely agreed upon.  I did not understand how people could believe that global-warming may just be a scam.  After reading Bethell’s article, I can say that, with the information I have, global-warming is not a fact and should still be debated.  You may call me crazy, illogical, or completely outdated, but Bethell does an excellent job of convincing his audience of his view on the skepticism of global-warming.