An analysis of “Introduction: Making Climate Change Understandable”
Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman discuss several points about global climate change issue in this book introduction titled Making Climate Change Understandable. In this article, the authors claim that people have been inadvertently causing global climate change, which has become a major controversial topic influencing people in different aspects. Although some people start to take actions, many citizens still do not comprehend the significance of this issue. The writers don't explore each aspect of his main claim thoroughly but choose to break down the whole big picture into several parts and emphasize one of the aspects, which is the lack of citizen’s proper knowledge to the global climate change problem. To support this subclaim, the writers provide four reasons based on several evidences and also warrants to the reasons.
Before getting into the reasoning parts, the writers state 3 warrants …show more content…
This subclaim bases on a scientific evidence of a climate psychology, which demonstrates that people are often ingrained in what they already believe and seek evidence only reinforce their opinions. Therefore, no matter what and how scientific field addresses the issue, people refuse to accept that.
The third part of the reasons is that complicated nomenclature and terminology makes climate change hard to comprehend. Before exploring this reason deeply, the writers identify many scientific terms used in climate field as evidence. This kind of evidence firstly give readers strong and direct expression of what the authors plan to argue, and secondly, those words are persuasive because they allow people to realize the logic behind this reason
Joseph F. C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman discuss several points about global climate change issue in this book introduction titled Making Climate Change Understandable. In this article, the authors claim that people have been inadvertently causing global climate change, which has become a major controversial topic influencing people in different aspects. Although some people start to take actions, many citizens still do not comprehend the significance of this issue. The writers don't explore each aspect of his main claim thoroughly but choose to break down the whole big picture into several parts and emphasize one of the aspects, which is the lack of citizen’s proper knowledge to the global climate change problem. To support this subclaim, the writers provide four reasons based on several evidences and also warrants to the reasons.
Before getting into the reasoning parts, the writers state 3 warrants …show more content…
This subclaim bases on a scientific evidence of a climate psychology, which demonstrates that people are often ingrained in what they already believe and seek evidence only reinforce their opinions. Therefore, no matter what and how scientific field addresses the issue, people refuse to accept that.
The third part of the reasons is that complicated nomenclature and terminology makes climate change hard to comprehend. Before exploring this reason deeply, the writers identify many scientific terms used in climate field as evidence. This kind of evidence firstly give readers strong and direct expression of what the authors plan to argue, and secondly, those words are persuasive because they allow people to realize the logic behind this reason