Climate Change Argument Essay

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What if there was not a single animal on earth, what would the people do? Climate change is creating a turn of events for animals that live within a specific climate or area. With the change in climate taking its toll on the animal kingdom, causing them not only to move and adapt to there surroundings climate change is causing many of them to die out. Climate change really picked up during the industrialization era when factories started open up and more and more gasoline engines came onto the road. Thus causing more CO2 emissions in the air with a combination of fossil fuels. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes that some of the biggest causes of climate change is from the emissions from fossil fuels that humans use. While on the other hand Jack Kerwick believes that climate …show more content…
When they have no evidence to provide or help support there argument they begin to lose credibility. According to Jack Kerwick author of “Climate Change and Fake Science” (2017) “It wasn’t too long ago when it was “global warming,” not “climate change,” that was all of the rage. There was no talk of “climate change.” But then, practically overnight, “global warming” gave way to the latter. Why?” (para. 6). While this is an interesting statement from Jack if anyone knows anything about climate change they know global warming is a part of climate change. Global warming is the rise in temperature, while climate change is the warming and all of the other effects of climate change. With this provided some may argue that Jack did not research enough to create an article about this particular topic. While he provides an emotional attachment to attract readers, he lacks the support and evidence to back up his claim. While Jack has a lack of statistical figures, he has a well association with connecting to the audience through the use of

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