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Cherwell - C2 - Greenbox: A Climate of Change

If you don't accept the reality of human-induced climate change you are at best ignorant or, at worst, highly dangerous.

Climate change sceptics, on a whole, now base their arguments on uncertainty as to the consequences of climate change rather than its existence. To be sure, our modelling of the future contains inaccuracies and uncertainties as one would expect with an issue of this complexity, but the fact of the matter is that climate change is real, climate change is happening and climate change (and everything that stems from it) will probably be the single most important issue in our lifetimes.

As students at Oxford we love to debate, we love conspiracy, we love to argue for arguments sake in an intellectual playground...

Cherwell - C2 - Green Box

Jack Wellby argued in the last Greenbox that now is the time to stop trying to convince the sceptics, and I began this year's OUSU Environment Handbook by saying anyone who didn't believe in the existence of Climate Change is either misinformed or stubborn.
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Line drying your clothes instead of using a tumble dryer will save much more energy than switching lights off when you leave the room, and I think everyone knows what to do when it comes to air travel. A renewal within the green campaign is necessary to provide the same effervescent campaign of earlier in the decade if we are to convince those that have installed the right lightbulbs that the next step is to unplug their tumble dryer.

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