Assignment 2: Conflicting Viewpoints Essay – Part II

Assignment 1: Conflicting Viewpoints Essay Part 1

Class: Critical Thinking PHI 210

Professor: Geran Dodson

Student: Brayan Aguilar Rodriguez

Date: 10/22/2017

Conflicting Viewpoints Essay Part 1

Overwhelming scientific consensus says human activity is primary responsible for global climate change:

A. What’s interesting or helpful about this view?

In their research they found that 97-87% human activity is primary responsible climate change but there are some people who still think that humans are not responsible for climate change. This brings me undiscovered information about this topic.

B. What would I notice if I believed this view?

Scientist have all the supplies necessary to make this kind of research and the authority to find a solution. There are some scientist disagree but I can feel that this climate change is actually happening.

C. In what sense or under what conditions might this idea be true?

A separate survey in 2011 also found that 84% of earth, space, atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrological scientists surveyed said that human-included global warming is occurring. I think people prefer ignore what is really happening, clearly our weather is changing every year.

More than one thousand scientists disagree that human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change:

A. What’s interesting or helpful about this view?

If their research is right, then climate change belief is more debatable than what I thought. I thought there were only few scientists that disagree that there was a climate change. This actually helped me to prove myself wrong about this topic.

B. What would I notice if I believe this view?

As said before, there are many scientists that disagree that we are the primary reason of this matter, it surprises me how people can still think that we aren’t the reason of global warming. Scientists are who have proved that we the reason of this matter.

B. In what sense or under what conditions might this idea be true?

When they mention that human activity is not the primary responsible of climate change. This theory could be true because there might be something going on outside the earth that could be affecting us.

Rising levels of atmospheric CO2 do not necessarily cause global warming, which contradicts the core thesis of human-caused climate change.

A. What’s interesting or helpful about this view?

CO2 is just one of the sources scientist use to know that there’s a global warming. This view proves that most scientists that believed there’s a climate change are true for what has been researched and proven.

B. What would I notice if I believed this view?

Scientist who don’t believe that humans are the primary reason of climate change should provide more specific reasons and proof to believe that their theory is true.

C. In what sense or under what conditions might this idea be true?

This statement is very vague by using the term “necessarily” is its theory. Since that word wasn’t used, CO2 emissions would scientifically be proven to cause no impact on climate change.

Resources: https://climatechange.procon.org/