Sunday, March 27, 2011

How do you view climate change?

The purpose of both websites is to get their views out there about climate change. “The Friends of Science” is a climate change skeptic website. It provides information on all the reasons why climate change is not caused by green house emissions. After clicking the link for the website the first thing to catch my attention was the myths about climate change. Such as the Earth is actually cooling and the sun is the real reason why the Earth is getting warmer. The website provides graphs to back up their claims. The graphs were a useful addition to the website, but even with the graphs I did not buy the websites claims. I was more curious about finding out who, was running the website. I was shock to find out that “The Friends of Science” website is run out of Canada, and is complied of retired scientists who are all skeptics of climate change. After reading about where the websites sources were coming from, I started to wonder if the retired scientist retired because they did not see eye to eye with others in the science community on climate change. The other website “How to Talk to Climate Skeptics” provides the alternate view to climate change. The website strategically lays out bullet points of the major remarks made by those who do not believe climate change is a real thing. It is easy to follow and go down the list of all the counter arguments that can be made. When clicking on one of the bullets it appears that someone blogged in to state why this was not a plausible reason for climate change to have not happened. There were no credentials of the person listed as to why they were an expert. This website also did not provide graphs like the other one, which even though I did not spend too much time looking at graphs on the other website, it was a useful tool, no matter how skewed the information could have been. When going to these two sites, like any website on climate change, I kept in mind that they both were trying to spread their message on climate change. To switch and alter as many people’s views to how they see the world. With that in mind they were both going to highlight scientific claims that supported their views and disregard those that did not. In terms of lay out I thought the anti-climate change website had a better set up. The website presented sources for their information and I was able to find an About Us, to fully understand the reason behind the website. With that said, I still do not believe the information presented on the website.

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