Climate Change/ Anti-Doomsday

will raise the surface temperature by an average of 6 degrees over the next 50 years, ignores the potential for temperature increase beyond those 50 years. These claims further disregard the possibility that drastic climate changes could happen more rapidly than predicted and have more drastic consequences as well. The point of all this is not to scare people though, it’s to make them more aware and provide incentive for change.

"It's better that we know we are responsible for it and start asking the question what we can do about it, than just regard it as a doomsday scenario."

- Dr. Alan Betts

“It is true that scientists think if we don’t take rather drastic action in the next ten or twenty years we will get much more warming by the end of the century than we would like,” acknowledges Dr. Alan Betts1. “It’s better that people understand what is happening, understand that we know we are responsible for it and start asking the question what we can do about it, than just regard it as a doomsday scenario.”

What would happen if we decided to sweep this problem under the rug? As previously mentioned, the Earth functions on a delicate balance that affects nearly all aspects of daily life on a fundamental level1; human life is sustained by the land it feeds off of and if those environments start to fail, our health and economy would start to fail as well.

Many reports note that if Earth’s temperature continues to rise, it will create a warmer environment that, along with the increase of climate change related precipitation events, will create a breeding ground for dangerous diseases including dengue fever,