One of the biggest debates throughout the world right now is the controversial topic of global warming. Politicians, celebrities and civilians are debating this hot topic more than ever before. In fact, back in late November countries from around the world gathered in Paris, France for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Despite this frenzy and urge for change to improve our climate, I think that global warming is one of the biggest hoaxes, if not the biggest, in recent memory.

At one of the recent presidential debates, democratic nominee Bernie Sanders stated that “Global change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.” Personally, I think this is one of the most idiotic things ever said by a political figure. First of all, climate change has no relation to terrorism. In fact, President Obama stated back in May 2015, “Understand, climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world.” Secondly, two years ago most of North America faced the coldest and snowiest winters in the past 130 years. If global warming was such a threat to mankind and a direct reason why terrorism has been growing, then why did we just have such a terrible winter? Come on Bernie, please fact check these things.

A memorable moment from the popular animated TV show "Family Guy" was when Lois ran for town mayor. Something she said is much like what Bernie Sanders does frequently. During the episode of Family Guy, Lois shouts random political events to get the audience to rally around her. When someone asked Lois any question she responded with “9/11.” This is a strikingly similarity to Bernie Sanders. He shouts and screams to get his point across. He could shout something about Planned Parenthood or border security and relate it to terrorism just to get a thunderous applause from the audience. People need to realize that politicians are trying to sway you into voting for them and they will say ridiculous stuff just for applause much like Bernie Sanders keeps doing with free college, and what I'm specifically talking about here with global warming.

So you’re probably wondering why I don't think global warming is real. First, it’s called the weather. The weather changes due to seasons and weather patterns, not because the atmosphere is being destroyed by gases from cars or factories. Sure, gasses could damage the ozone layer but not drastically enough to where the Earth is heating up at alarming rates. Every year is something different with the Earth’s weather it may be colder due to changes in the jet stream or it may be warmer because of El Nino. In addition, scientists claimed 2014 was the warmest year on record when this is actually a false statement. 2014 was actually the highest recorded snowfall in modern times along with the highest amounts of ice around the world and in Antarctica. It’s time to stop blaming and time to start realizing global warming is fake and only a natural Earth weather pattern.