Climate change is real

Somewhere, somehow, the American people have decided that climate change is a hoax, and I am not quite sure where that is coming from. Is it the fact that, according to the NASA: Global Climate Change webpage, the top 700 meters of the ocean have warmed by three degrees since 1969? Or perhaps that Greenland has lost 150 to 250 cubic kilometers of ice per year between 2002 and 2006, and Antarctica has lost about 152 cubic kilometers, 36 cubic miles, of ice between 2002 and 2005? Could it be that since the 1920s, the acidity in the ocean has increased by over 30%?

It is baffling to think that there are educated Americans that still believe climate change, according to Donald Trump, is a hoax “created by the Chinese” especially considering the staggering amount of evidence available proving otherwise.

The polar ice caps are shrinking every day and it is 60 degrees in Indiana during the month of February, but somehow people have just accepted this as normal.

Update, America: global warming is real and it is a threat.

I don’t know who came up with the idea that climate change is fake, although a tweet by Trump from 2012 that claimed “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” almost certainly has something to do with the ridiculous notion.

Climate change is more than fluctuating temperatures and uncommonly warm winters; it can lead to extreme flooding and intense storms including blizzards. Especially with our new Presidential Administration, it is imperative that the people put the environment into their own hands and do more to protect the only environment we have by doing things such as reducing energy use, recycling, and driving fuel efficient cars.