Do ideas change about climate?

Ray Rodriguez
Your viewpoint determines the future

Do ideas change?

There are usually some unexplainable occurrences that can not be explained. One action that happens in our everyday in our lives is weather and climate changes, since you cannot control the weather, your ideas do change as time and experiences happen. For a couple of years I have witnessed certain outcomes of weather related mishaps either as primary or secondary sources. In Mark Maslin’s “Your viewpoint determines the future” shows how certain forms of information can contradict certain views or ideologies to determine whether you have the same views of nature or if your ideas shift from time to time due to changes in view.

I have always seen nature as a powerful force that at any given time can just become unbalanced and very destructive. As shown and depicted by the graphs (Maslin 37, 39, and 40) one can see different views on how predicted weather patterns can occur; either never ending, stabilized, based on human affects, become unbalanced, or the point of no return. I clearly was shocked by these ideas even though I knew that climate changes will affect us in the long run but not to this extent. I was clearly shocked by this passage because the numbers and different outcomes are each a one/fourth chance of actually happening making all risks horrible out comes of global warming. Nature’s beauty is too wonderful to get rid of but even with certain ramifications we still can’t reverse the damages that have already been done.

Since I am always trying to figure out why things happen, I was clearly shocked by Maslin’s passage because I just thought that after global warming takes place some will survive; however, there is a point of no return and the planet will just shut down on itself causing an addition and change to how I view and how much more I should value my life. Knowing that I will be able to have newer knowledge through this passage, I will now be able to understand why certain scenarios are possibilities mainly because there isn’t always a happy ending to all fairy tails(like the world that we live in).

Global warming is a serious issue and since scientist find so many changes in what can be an outcome, my ideas are usually changing as well in order to be able to fully understand the topic that is known as Global warming.


Work Cited:

(Masslin, Mark) Global Warming a Very Short Introduction, New York: Oxford
University Press Inc, 2004