Climate Research

My topic is on the political view points of climate change. One thing that I learned from my research today was that a treaty about climate change, the Paris Climate Treaty, was signed yesterday April 27th, and President Obama was one of those to sign the treaty. President Obama is trying to use this treaty to further constrain the U.S. to cut the fossil fuel use, and carbon dioxide emissions. I knew this topic was a current argument, but I was interested to find out that things concerning this topic occurred as recent as yesterday. Another thing that was so interesting, and concerning to me about President Obama's signing of this treaty, was that he signed it without presenting it to the U.S. Senate, which is extremely unconstitutional. I am interested to see if someone will actually say anything to the President about his unconstitutional acts.

Another thing I learned was more about the opposing views on climate change from the Republicans and the Democrats. One thing that was interesting to me was that politicians are mostly concerned with the argument of global warming, not other climate changes like drought (which is statistically proven to be the American people's number one climate change concern). The Democrats view on global warming is that it does exist, that we the people are causing it, and that Americans should be actively working to cut down the fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions. Republicans on the other hand are about half and half. Some Republicans believe it is an actual issue, while some do not believe it is real at all. Several Republicans believe more in Theodore Roosevelt's ideas of preserving our land by making national parks, instead of cutting the use of fossil fuels and stunting our economic growth. It was interesting to me to see that Republicans and Democrats somewhat agree, but at the same time can not reach a solution to the argument.

Republican Views
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Pew Research
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