Darien Sorensen Professor Potratz English 100 9 October 2009 Rhetorical Analysis on “Better Energy” Gwyneth Cravens addresses the issue of the use of nuclear energy in her article “Better Energy”. She starts off by introducing James Lovelock, who is a prominent figure in the green movement, but four years before she wrote her article, he upset his fans by endorsing the use of nuclear energy. She goes on to explain how the use of nuclear energy will be able to decrease the threat of global warming. She claims that nuclear energy is the only way to get the amount of energy that is needed, without critically hurting the environment. Through out her article Cravens highlights the environmental benefits of nuclear energy.
2. What effects might this steady increase of carbon dioxide have on the organisms living in this area? -As stated before, photosynthesis performers would not be effected, as the can take in carbon dioxide. Respiratory breathers, however, face a fatal issue with extra carbon dioxide in the air. The population of respiratory breathers will slowly decrease, considering plants will give a little bit of oxygen.
Both Sharon Begley and Jeff Jacoby contradict one another in their text. Sharon claims, “The stable climate of 12,000 years is gone” (Begley 4). Jacoby on the other hand basically states we haven’t really had 12,000 years of stable climate, because we have been using CO2 since the Industrial Revolution (Jacoby 9). Begley also states how global warming is coming fast, while Jacoby is saying that he doesn’t believe global warming is even going to happen. These are
These are the clues that prove the climate is changing day by day. Begley suggests there is no certain way to stop climate change due to global warming, so now people need to find out how they are going to make efficient adaptation plans to keep the planet safe from climate changing threat. Rising global temperatures have been accompanied by changes in weather and climate. Small changes in the average temperature of the planet can be a large and potentially
Throughout, this essay will discuss, with uses of examples, how Balog (2009) disputed his arguments in order to cogent TED audience and outward viewers on the issue of ‘climate changes’? The question to challenge James Balog (2009) illustration proposal is possible, in a way that, bringing the invisible to the visual is undoubtedly fascinating. However, he claimed that the cause of an on-going global warming is due to CO2 (Balog, 7.20); which it is utterly unconvincing. Drawing his project on merely two years of work, it would have had been more reasonable to extend the ‘Extreme Ice Survey’ on long-cycle duration to obtain accurate data. Furthermore, online participation denoted that the paleoclimate graphs show correlation of CO2 and temperature are not clear doer.
Case 19-1: Massachusetts v EPA Facts: A group of 19 private organizations filed a petition asking EPA to regulate “greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Petitioners maintained that greenhouse gas emissions have accelerated climate change and that carbon dioxide is the most important contributor to climate change. EPA denied the petition, claiming that the Clean Air Act does not authorize the Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Even if it did, EPA argued, the Agency had discretion to defer a decision until more research could be done on "the causes, extent and significance of climate change and the potential options for addressing it." Massachusetts, other states and private organizations filed suit
Eaarth Chapters 1 & 2 We’ve changed the planet. Global warming is no longer philosophical or future threat but instead a current and very real threat. The changes made to our planet are more evident in the toughest parts of the planet, and climate change is wrecking the lives of thousands daily. We need to consider the world we’ve created and how to live in it. We need to figure out what part of our lives we must forego and what ideologies we must abandon so that we can protect our societies and our civilizations.
Another destruction that he talks about is the global warming. Researchers are trying to find expensive ways to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide as it pours from power plant smokestacks and finally won’t enter the atmosphere. But Mckibben claims that the cars and factories and furnaces will keep belching carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as long as we burn fossil fuels. He also cited what Yale economist William Nordhaus says, “the damage from global warming will be confined to farming and forestry, which represent only 3 percent of the
“Green Energy Future with Fracking!” The United States should not include hydraulic fracturing as a part of their energy future because of environmental risks. Hydraulic fracturing is a new drilling technique that extracts hard to reach oil or gas from shale-rock (Whitten & Beinecke, 2013). Proponents of hydraulic fracturing argue that this process is not harmful to environment. Although some studies have shown that hydraulic fracturing may be safer than traditional oil drilling techniques, this new drilling technique poses danger to environment (Inglesby & Jenks & Nquist & Pinner, 2012). In fact, hydraulic fracturing causes air pollution.
However, she was bluntly unaware that pesticides were not the biggest issues people had to worry about during the mid-twentieth century. In fact, it was global warming. She says “The chemical to which life is asked to make its adjustment are no longer merely the washed out of the rocks carried in rivers to the sea; they are the synthetic creations of man’s inventive mind, brewed in his laboratories, and having no counterparts in nature.”(Carson 1-40). In respect to her statement, McKibben adds on to the corruption of their sacred world by acknowledging that global warming has changed the world’s physical and chemical features. Examples of these changes he mentions are the “Arctic ice cap is melting”, Greenland’s glaciers are “thinning”, the oceans are becoming more “acidic” and “warmer” which is lowering the survival rate of several species such as coral.