They also claim the environmental groups
They also claim the environmental groups
magine a world where life struggles to survive. According to Bill Mckibben, author of "Global Warming: Get Up! Stand Up!" The countdown to global devastation began 30 years ago. In 1988, James Hansen, a former NASA scientist presented the issue of global warming before Congress, and the response from US legislation was staggering!…
The United States Government is frequently criticized due to its lack of action regarding pressing issues. This frequently leads to the creation of political cartoons that aim to assert this criticism. However, this general attitude towards our government may be slightly misguided. The government’s lack of response to issues is affected by the public in general. As Mackenzie King said, “Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion.…
Fox News establishes their credibility by referencing to experts’ opinions, like climate scientists. For example, Doug McKelway, a Fox correspondent on The Special Report, uses the “NASA scientist turned climate activist James Hanson,” to show he “also acknowledges the lull” in the planet’s temperature rising (“Climate Change Challenged”). By using this prominent and credible climatologist, Fox News gains the public’s trust and faith in their climate change opinions. James Hanson proves that Global Warming was exaggerated, once he identifies that temperatures have flat lined and have only increased a few tenths of a degree in the past decade. Dr. Robert Carter, a marine geologist, agrees with Hanson and believes that this lull in the past decade proves that climate change is natural and not caused by humans (“House Environmental Committee”).…
Dear Rex W. Tillerson CEO, As you must know, climate change is real and well in effect. The sea-level is rising, the ice caps are melting, the ocean is acidifying, and Earth’s temperature is rising at an unprecedented rate. Why, must you ask? We humans have become so powerful and influential that we have changed Earth’s climate and the way Earth works. As the population will continue to grow at a high rate, the need for resources will increase as well.…
Just as Klein states, “The bottom line is that we are all inclined to denial when the truth is too costly- whether emotionally intellectually, or financially”(46). Even though we all aware of the implications of our actions to the environment, we continue to repeat those actions. Some of us chose to look away, especially “political right”(Kelin 63)because they fear to change; fear to accept the consequence of climate changing. Some of us chose to deny because they lack trust to the scientist.…
Comprehending Climate Change Climate change has been a pressing issue in our world. There are multiple factors that negatively impact our climate; ranging from businesses using fossil fuels, people’s negative habits, and so forth. Even though the government and a portion of society have been taking immediate action towards reducing further effects, there is still a good amount of people who are in denial of climate change or just do not understand it. There has been numerous articles, books, and talks about climate change and the dangers of it.…
They argue that opinions are formed by the content presented by the media that one is exposed to. Which explains why climate change is up for debate, for there is much diversity, although not all are equally reliable. Recently, climate change deniers have been working to strengthen public relations, trying to gain support. Hoggan and Littlemore argue that such deniers are not trying to better society with actual information, because if they were working toward scientific progress, their goal would be scientific research not public relations. They continue their argument saying that gaining support works to slows the process of making climate change a fact, which benefits the oil industries who fund these actions.…
The reason why mainstream media or politicians don 't want to talk about the issues is because these companies pay an enormous amount of money in lobbying, campaign donations, and independent expenditures to Washington to not do anything about it. Currently we face an incredibly complex series of decisions over climate change such as social, political, policies, economic decisions. We need to address all of this to stop the planet from heating pass the tipping point or boiling point. Bernie Sanders and few of his co-sponsors are the few politicians who are willing to discuss this problem openly to act on it and save the human species as we know it. The proposal to hit climate change is a bold move to help the future generations have a earth they…
Global Warming is beginning to drastically affect the Earth. Most people do not think about the damage they are doing to the Earth of if they do they think it is a problem for the future and not for now, which is untrue. Humans’ lifestyles should be altered to prevent further damage to Earth’s environment by reducing the demand for energy, recycling, and using less air conditioning and heat, these acts will reduce global warming. If the human race would cut down on energy usage, it would slow down global warming 's damages. In “Climate Change Science-…
The IPCC concluded that most of the warming that has been observed over the past 50 years is due to human activities and Its findings have been publicly endorsed by the national academies of science of all G-8 nations. Those who deny climate change generally do not have a background in science and do not debate with the climate scientists directly but instead fixate on the media, the general public and politicians in the hopes of delaying action climate change. The motive behind the delays is due to the fact that the majority of climate change deniers receive significant funding from coal and oil companies. In 1999, a coalition of coal and utility companies launched a disinformation campaign designed by a public relations firm to create the Information Council on the Environment (ICE), their goal was to “reposition global warming as theory rather than fact," a statement that was leaked from strategy papers developed by a polling firm used by the public relations company that managed the ICE…
In the article “Understanding Faulty thinking tackle climate change” author George Marshall explains the psychological reasons why we ignore climate change. The article presents many biases we employ which affect how important we deem an issue and prejudices on why we choose to ignore it. After throughly analyzing the article based on its content and use off logos, ethos, and pathos I have concluded that every UTA alumni would be able to make their own connection with any of the statements provide in the article. Thus I would happily recommend the article be published in UTA’s newspaper The Shorthorn. George selectively includes some logos in an effort to persuade and appeal to his readers.…
Climate Myths 1. “It’s the sun”- This is not true at all, because they’re going in different directions. As the planet gets warmer we’ve seen the sun getting cooler. 2.…
Al Gore’s book Truth to Power explains a climate crisis. The author explains how one problem can affect another, thus causing a domino effect on different places of the world. He explains how a climatic problem can affect millions of people, livestock, and businesses. Al Gore really makes the reader think once he or she begins reading his book, it helps the reader to be more aware of the conditions around him or her, and understand that his or her choices can harm another without even knowing it. He states three resounding questions for the reader:…
Human activity is one of the causes of climate change and it was proved by showing the Earth’s temperature today vs. the Earth’s temperature in the 1900’s. A lot of carbon dioxide was released and many states aimed at reducing it (Michaels). While Michaels uses logos in his article to assert the fact that nothing is being done to end global warming, Inhofe attacks DiCaprio and Gore for scaring children with their films and sending the wrong messages. However, they had different intentions. Michaels focused on global warming and provided a solution while Inhofe criticizes the films and points out its flaws like if he was a…
On the other side are those with a "hierarchical" and "individualistic" mind-set which believes in industry and do not approve of government interference; they tend to be climate change skeptics that sees climate change as way for more taxation or regulation. These two camps which when armed with high science literacy serves only to create a vicious cycle that only widen the current…