By Molly Ryan & Lilly Rogers
“We’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.” This was a statement from the director of the office of management and budget, Mick Mulvaney regarding the globe’s climate change issues. However, what might be “crazy” to our presidential office, is not crazy to a lot of people.
“We’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.” This was a statement from the director of the office of management and budget, Mick Mulvaney regarding the globe’s climate change issues. However, what might be “crazy” to our presidential office, is not crazy to a lot of people.
Among those who see the reality of climate change is former vice president, Al Gore. Not only is he very popular on social media regarding climate change, he is featured in a movie coming out on July 28th of this year, called “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”. This movie explains his efforts to try to improve climate change and also the devastating effects that follow climate change.
We agree with almost everything Gore has stated about our world’s downward spiral towards global warming and climate change. We completely intend on seeing this movie when it premieres.
Trump’s budget cuts on climate change efforts and research can be potentially disastrous for the planet. Every 10,000 years or so, the planet begins to warm up again - hence global warming. Even with this fact, the climate is changing is occurring faster than it should be. Industrialization has had a large effect on this. Fossil fuels and natural gases have had a damaging effect on the planet. Just because changes in climate are a natural occurrence, doesn’t mean the rate it’s occurring at isn’t a problem.
President Trump’s disregard for climate change is absurd; his accusation towards the Chinese government is even more so. How could one government, no matter how influential, convince the whole planet that global warming is rising? In all honesty, it makes no sense, and his argument that the Chinese government has a majority of the population convinced of global warming is a bit of a stretch.