Climate change is not real? Counterarguments for the family table

Unfortunately, anyone who works to protect the climate is always confronted with people who don't really want to see the problem. Pretty annoying - but doable!

Just in time for the upcoming dark season, when we spend more time together indoors and there is significantly more time for controversial exchanges of opinions, we want to prepare you with arguments. We have taken two classic statements from climate skeptics and show you how to break them down.

It is true that the Earth's climate has always been characterized by warmer and colder cycles. This is related to changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun. However, from the 1980s onwards, global warming has been observed at a much faster rate than ever before recorded. The current change is undoubtedly of historic proportions and cannot be compared with previous fluctuations.

Climate change is not caused by humans at all.

It's worth taking a look in your geography book for this. Keyword: greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is a natural process that makes life on earth possible: the earth radiates heat, which is absorbed by various gases in the atmosphere and partially radiated back. These gases include carbon dioxide, or CO2 for short.

Since humans began burning fossil fuels to generate energy at the beginning of the industrial age, there has been a significant increase in CO2. And since then we have also observed a significant and continuous increase in the earth's temperature. The atmosphere is out of balance. This correlation can also be scientifically proven causally. Therefore, it is now undisputed: climate change is man-made.

We wish you every success in your persuasion work. Because it would obviously be nicer and more pleasant for all of us to believe that the current change is simply a temporary, natural phenomenon. Unfortunately, that is not the reality. That is why we should all take climate change seriously and act accordingly.