Is Global Warming Exaggerated?

Written by Bruno Hirano

We’ve all heard something about: “The dangers of global warming”. Even if this term does bore you, you probably know someone takes it seriously. Everyone knows that our planet begun has its process of change of the climate resulting in the increase of the temperature.

Even though everyone knows about the global warming, people react differently about the issue due to the influence by the media. The amount of information and the focus on the different points by the specialist, combine with the uses of terms like “chaotic”, “terrifying” or even “the apocalyptic” are several reasons why it catches people which thus, produces the perfect ingredients for a captive media.

A most recent document published by the United Nations last month, has already made the media mention the consequences predicted by the UN as “astonishing” and “terrifying”.

Many scientists don’t agree with this attitude. Even the UN itself critics this behavior performed by the media. “I’m concerned about the media; it has contributed to produce an apocalyptic image of the issue”, said Achin Steven, a director of UN’s Ambient Program. But he also complements that the term “catastrophe” could be used to describe some of the effects that will be caused by the global warming.

Some people believe that activists, the media and some scientists are using global warming as a reason to cause a big reaction for an urgency situation.

In 2003, an American republican senator, James Inhofe, described the global warming catastrophe as the biggest lie ever told against the people of the United States .

Everyone knows that the media use of any kind of resources to cause people attention and consequently profit. “The media is not overreacting as long as they say global warming is real”, believes Senior, Jenny Wu in our school.

Next time while you read anything about global warming, just make sure to analyze critically if what is showed is consistent. Global warming is real, but at this point nobody really knows the proportions of how dangerous this event could be for our lives.

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