Global Warming A Hoax?

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the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which is the most influential group in global warming awareness. However, the IPCC has undergone investigation after there were several mistakes found in the 4th Assessment report after Climagate. Despite the ongoing controversy that surrounds global warming, I believe global warming is still an issue the public should be concerned with; the people need to take into consideration all the factors involved instead of using Climategate as their sole source of evidence. Climategate may have created skepticism around the issue of global warming; however, the struggling economy, new Obama administration and Congress, lack of media attention and abnormal weather patterns must also be considered as important and influencing factors in the public’s de-prioritization of climate change.
The decline among the public’s beliefs and trust regarding climate change may have been caused by several different factors. Since late 2008, the economy ...

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opinion is based off of; however, the quality and quantity of coverage remains minimal. In 2007, media coverage on global warming peaked after the release of the movie “An Inconvenient Truth”; however, since then reporting as declined and replaced by issues concerning the economy. Also, a majority of the information received by the public is abstract scientific knowledge; it is difficult for most Americans to directly relate to the problem and translate it into a major public concern (Revkin).What is easy for people to relate to is the unusual weather patterns, which many have used as support behind the implications of Climategate as evidence that climate change is not happening. In ...

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