Sunday, February 3, 2008

Global warming

My article on global warming is from last april, but it had some convincing evidence in it. Unlike MLK, who skillfully blended ethos, logos, and pathos, this article relied almost exclusively on logos. It presented the facts of how global warming has increased and who is the culprit, us. It argues that humans are the reason global warming has increased, and while this is pretty accepted now, last year at this time, our president still refused to admit that there was a problem. I liked how the article subtly addressed this by mentioning that the 2007 State of the Union was the first time that Bush mentioned the growing climate crisis. I think that MLK was using a combination because he really needed to appeal to emotions and logic. Scientists are going to keep attacking with logic because that's what they know how to do and that is what they can give data to back up. Findings on global warming can be presented with some emotion, see Al Gore, but scientists must first prove there is a problem before they can make us realize that we will feel its impact. My article can be found at http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/02/climate.change.report/index.html 

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