Koch Industries Arguments Against Climate Change

A driving force for this is that politicians have been taken over by campaign financing from the fossil fuel industry. The hold that dirty energy has on politics was highlighted by the Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens’ United In 2010 that allowed limitless corporate Super PAC spending. Organizations like Koch Industries’ Americans for Prosperity and the Donor’s Trust funnel money to various campaigns. It can be impossible to trace donors or calculate the exact amount of money being spent though, some estimates have determined as much as a billion dollars a year is funding lobbying against climate change legislation. This lobby for fossil fuels has promoted over 130 bills in the state legislatures that would reduce energy standards,
environmental policy by climate deniers has obstructed attempts to contain this crisis. Self-proclaimed climate science deniers or skeptics, as some prefer to be called, have several arguments even with the overwhelming consensus among scientists about the truth of climate change. A common argument that is espoused by many people is that greenhouse gas emissions are too small to substantially change our climate, and that the earth's climate has always warmed and cooled. They believe the recent rise in global temperature is the result of a natural climate oscillation, and will eventually give way to a cool period
Even as the CO2 that was emitted long ago is contributing to the changes seen in climate over the years, so will the emissions released today determine the climate of future generations. Stephen Schneider, who was professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, said about climate science is “rarely do we know everything and rarely do we know nothing....What we are really doing is assaulting our global environment at a faster rate than we are understanding it and the best we can do is say lookout, there's a change of potentially irreversible change and it's very tough for us to know whether the benefits of today are worth the potential risk of environmental change for our Children” (Global). Global greenhouse emissions must peak and begin to decline toward zero as rapidly as possible to reduce the carbon footprint humanity has on the earth and fight against climate change. It is predicted that without a reduction, the globe would experience an overall temperature rise of 6.4 degrees Celsius by the end of the century (Walter). To prevent this countries must work on creating policies that work toward the goal of replacing dirty fossil fuel energy and false solutions like nuclear and natural gas with renewable energy, such as wind and solar. To accommodate this transition into