I’m sure by now most people have heard of the term “Climate Change”. It’s an assessment based on statistics that global average temperatures are rising, which is putting Life on Earth at risk. Climate Change is a very controversial subject due to individual opinions, religious ideologies, and economic policy making. So, whether you believe Climate Change is real or fake you will eventually have to deal with the consequences of your action or inaction on the subject.

Based on the heat wave that is gripping most of Europe and the United States, we cannot deny that 2022 is a very hot year so far. In fact, climatologists say temperatures in Europe are the highest ever in the 300 years of record keeping. Of course, that doesn’t mean that Climate Change is real. We all know that some seasons are hotter than some so why do climatologists claim that the world is getting hotter and humanity is in danger?

Weather and Climate are two separate things. Weather is the day-to-day reporting of atmospheric conditions in specific places. Climate is the statistics of daily weather conditions over various regions and over decades and centuries. Some days are hotter than others and some years are hotter than others therefore, in order to determine if Climate is actually changing, the statistics of hundreds of years must be the determining factor.

Climatologists have stated that due to their statistics, global temperatures have increased an average of 1.5C degree over the past century. This minute change is enough to cause more extreme weather such as Droughts and Hurricanes in certain places. The result is that humanity is at risk of increased starvation due to Drought and deaths due to extreme temperature, Air pollution, and natural disasters, all of which the world is experiencing now.

Do you believe Climate Change is real or fake? If you operate by religious ideology, you may or may not believe that Climate Change is real. On one hand you may believe that it is a sign of “the End Times”, which is Biblical prophecy that signals the return of your God. On the other hand, you could simply be pawns in a Capitalist prerogative to thwart the implementation of regulations that would affect the industrialized business sector.

I’ve actually heard conservative politicians in the USA, most of whom are involved in the Energy sector, either as owners or investors in companies that pollute the atmosphere, declare that they do not intend to comply with Carbon regulations because God put Oil and other natural resources under the earth for them to use as energy. They then hide behind religious idealists, most of whom are too dumb to understand or acknowledge the importance of science when they all depend on science to live every day, to help them continue to pollute the atmosphere and contribute to Climate Change.

No individual person can conclusively say whether Climate Change is real or fake. All climatologists can do is make educated assessments based on statistics. If you as an individual do not have access to statistics or do not even believe in statistics in the first place, your credibility in determining if Climate Change is real of fake will be severely diminished. The problem arises when we refuse to take the assessments of climatologists seriously because those assessments will limit our freedoms or affect our ability to do business.