Climate change is fake news people! Coal is where it's at… great jobs… great for the environment too! I bathe in coal dust great great exfoliate beautiful exfoliate ask your boy Donald. #ClimateChange
— Joe Drigon (@kingdbag) November 24, 2018
#ClimateChange OK so let's hear Gore, Sanders, The Weather Channel etc start advocating for rapid development and deployment of zero carbon nuclear energy. Until then, it sounds like typical left-wing Anti-America political same old same old. @realDonaldTrump
— Bill Hotchkiss 🇺🇸 (@BillHotchkiss) November 23, 2018
Anyone who is getting their knickers in a twist over climate change, need to watch this documentary. It's a lie that has spread like religion, and is just as fake. #ClimateChange #Weather #CORRUPTION
— Norm (@nordo61) November 26, 2018
Maybe now that the economy is on the line, let’s hope that loosens the grip the fossil fuel industry has on the GOP and they will start caring about the very real, devastating effects of #climatechange https://t.co/FdddIhH8cv
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) November 26, 2018
It's not ignorance… It's greed, ego and the desire to keep power. Share the Truth about #climatechange pic.twitter.com/CXR1SDdPtK
— Brad Zarnett (@BradZarnett) November 25, 2018
I seriously cannot understand WHY there are people who think #ClimateChange is "fake" or "not relevant". It is VERY REAL, & it is affecting us all. #ClimateChangeIsReal https://t.co/PI1SZv53bz
— Bam Devereaux (@archerdvrx) November 25, 2018
The first three tweets represent the deniers of climate change and the last three tweets show people in favor of taking action to slow climate change. This is a hotly debated topic, one of which if science is involved, should not really be a debate at all. Because our Republican president does not believe climate change is a threat, his supporters believe what he says. This is incredibly problematic because political viewpoints should not misconstrue facts. We have non-experts giving their unwarranted two cents on a scientific matter. The issue of climate change reveals a deep division in American culture. It appears it is not acceptable to be a “centrist” anymore; the 2016 election has shown that political ideas that are taken to the extremes are what people look for. The whole coining of climate change as “real” or “fake” comes from the overused expression of “fake news,” which in itself was started by the President, Donald Trump, which threatens the very being of American democracy. This “debate” about climate change is polarizing and is talked about among liberals and conservatives, both of whom look to sources that support their beliefs to substantiate their respective arguments.