Climate change is something that needs debating though. Personally I am on the side of the debate that says there is most definitely a problem there that needs sorting out how ever there is a lot of contradicting data sets that has the science community split. Sea levels are rising and the last 40 years have seen some terrible winters and hot summers compared to trends over the 100 years previous suggesting a warming of the planet yet NASA has reported that the south pole has actually grown not shrunk suggesting a cooling. There are also more polar bears now than there were 40 years ago as their habitat and food source grow. But there is more evidence in favour of global warming than not.,(reply>), +Falney Only the Antarctic ice is growing, and at an ever decreasing rate. Arctic ice is at an all-time low and shrinking fast. This is to be expected: arctic ice, having an ocean under it, is a lot more sensitive to temperature changes than antarctic ice with a non-moving, non-convecting continent under it.,(reply>), I live in the UK where we are suffering hotter summers, wetter summers, wetter winters and warmer winters than we had 40 years ago and the sea is rising and swallowing, albeit slowly, our coastal towns. I will re-iterate, I am not a climate change denier :P But all through my life I have been told that the ice caps are melting. That their size is drastically reducing every year when NASA says that they are growing even though the amount they grow each year is less and less. <br><br>You would see adverts for animal charities showing a sad looking polar bear floating away on a piece of ice and threats of their extinction. Threats that we would see temperatures so high we would cook by 2020. In school we were shown a highly dramatised video where an Australian walked under the "hole in the ozone layer" and suddenly turned into charcoal.,(reply>), @Falney<br>How does the mainstream media portray climate change, exactly?<br><br>Even if the American media outlets were consistently covering climate news, it would be rightfully so to be anxious about such a topic. These are changes that will come to affect us all.<br><br>Just curious, do you live in an area where there's yearly weather patterns, or is the climate mild?,(reply>), The list of people who do not agree with what people say climate change won't fit on a wikipedia page either. If you read my last post you would see that. Also yes, yes I do think the flat earth rubbish should be up for debate and it is regularly, search youtube for "flat earth debunked". <br><br>Debate drives progress in the fields of science, if anything can be argued it should be. 200 years ago we thought illnesses like Cholera, Chlamydia and the Black Death were transmitted through the Miasma. Then 1 scientist. Just 1 dared to argue against what was widely accepted by scientists and now we know that it wasn't the Miasma, it is microscopic entities i.e. bacteria and viruses. Despite Miasma being widely accepted (Climate change is widely accepted) it was debated and we learned from the debate. We progressed. Now, do you really want to stop the debates? Or shall we continue to debate climate change, learn from them and formulate a plan to combat it? Every time climate change is denied it forces the climatologists to do more research. Last time I checked that was a good thing.,(reply>), Agreed Eric. So let me amend my statement. I am not claiming that a lot deny it, I am saying a lot deny the way the mainstream belief puts forth. It is not helped when people like Bill Nye make statements like wanting to bring criminal charges to any one sceptical of it.