Argument Analysis of a Comment on New York Times In the article "Harvey, the Storm that Human Helped Cause", the author David Leonhardt displays the miserable scene of southeast Texas after the severe storm, Harvey. The article points out that the storm has a direct correlation with the climate change straightforward and illustrates the thesis statement basing on the situation of Harvey (Leonhardt par.3). Providing abundant evidence such as the foreshadowing of the storm, caused by anomaly temperature, Mr. Leonhardt claims that the catastrophe was a result of human activity (par.17). Nevertheless, scientists try to avoid this topic generally for political reasons so the author declares that people should discern the relationship between climate …show more content…
Although it is a scientific article, the author expresses his emotion between the lines, making the article really fascinating. The language in the article is pithy and direct. For instance, the first paragraph, containing only one sentence, delivers the information that how severe the storm is as well as what happened before the ravage in brief words. This expression gives readers a sense of tension and constructs an imperative atmosphere simultaneously. Meanwhile, words in the article convey readers the author's determination to disclose the relationship between the disaster and human activity. The adverb "certainly" is used for three times in order to emphasize the fact that government and scientists conceal the relevancy, expressing the author’s resolution (pars.4, 8, 17). Although most language in his article is terse and accurate, when mentioning the excuse which the government and scientists makes to obscure the relationship between the storm and weather change, the author changes into an ironic tone, pointing out that this kind of pretext is the same as denying the connection between cancer and
The majority of the article’s body contrasts the changes in sea levels, temperature increases and decreases, and alterations in precipitation. Although people in opposition to global climate change have asserted that there hasn’t been warming in the last decade, in 2010 scientists confirmed that the previous ten years were the “hottest decade since modern records have been kept.” People use heavy snowfalls as an example that global warming is a myth, yet “scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been increasing the rate of evaporation from the oceans, putting significantly more moisture into the atmosphere” which cause heavier falls of snow and rain in certain regions, such as the Northeastern United States. By bringing up these points he is creating logos and using basic knowledge to prove his point.
August 25, 2017 Hurricane Harvey hit the coast of Texas with absolute power. It was originally predicted that it would not surpass category 1, the elements combined and made Harvey extremely vicious. It hit the most populated areas on the United States becoming one of the most destructive. People did not have enough time to properly prepare for the unpredicted devastation ahead. However, the government and the people responded with strong efforts. Let’s start with the federal department. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (which is referred to as FEMA), with its government accomplices mobilized a work force and with many assets to help states affected. About 21,000 government assets were sent to help out during the vicious Tropical Storm. A lot of people sought refuge during the storm and the Federal government gave them many places to stay for example many government owned sites were converted refuge sites for the victims. The U.S coast guard played a huge role to aid victims. Thousands of coast guards were deployed in support of the relief efforts. They evacuated victims through government transport such as helicopters and big vehicles that could travel through the flooding. They are also opened various docks and waterways within Brownsville, Kentucky without any restrictions to the public. FEMA provided thousands of meals, medical and household items. Fema also paid rent for the victim’s short-term housing. Other ongoing Federal
On August 26th, 2017, Hurricane Harvey crashed into Texas and devastated Houston and the surrounding area. Harvey battered cities along the Gulf of Mexico, hitting primarily low income communities, and leaving 52 inches of rainfall, destroying about 22,000 homes, and displacing thousands in its wake. The image discussed in this essay depicts a Red Cross relief center in Houston providing shelter for residents unable to evacuate. The aforementioned image is of a domestic event, but the people, objects, and context demonstrate the complex social processes of globalization. Details in this image of Hurricane Harvey illustrate the harmful effect of the globalizing market in leading developed nations to be more focused on short term economic gain rather than long term environmental protection.
Climate change is one of the leading global and political problems we face today. Recently, Texas experienced the worst flooding from a major hurricane in their history. Aside from Harvey in the United States, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal also had dangerous monsoons that caused massive loss of life and property. Although there have been fewer hurricanes in the last decade they have become significantly stronger causing more devastation wherever they make landfall. While Harvey gained strength just before landfall it stalled over Houston causing massive flooding before returning to the Gulf again. Climate change remains a divisive political issue, with a significant percentage of Republicans saying they don’t believe the scientific consensus that man-made industrial emissions are accelerating the rise of global warming due to climate
The Main point of view in this article is how disasters like flooding and drought which are attributed to the changing climate are affecting some parts of the country. Weather forecasters issued flash flooding for the Deep South’s coastal areas while California is struggling with drought that has created trouble for the economy.
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As hurricane Harvey devastated Texas, prices of necessities hit shocking highs. Gas stations started charging twenty dollars for gas and convenience stores were charging over ninety dollars for a case of water. Delayed help from FEMA left Texans seeking help from other states. People with boats and jet skis made their way to Texas to help those stranded in their homes or in rafts. “The federal response to Hurricane Harvey’s devastation in Texas has quickly depleted FEMA’s disaster relief fund, which dropped by $2.14 billion last Thursday to $1.01 billion as of Tuesday. The figures from FEMA were first reported by Bloomberg and later confirmed by NBC News” ( Khimm, 2017). The House of Representatives enacted a bill allocating more money to FEMA due to a worsening hurricane season than previously expected. “The good news for the research community is that the
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have been some of the few drastic weather cases in America in the year of 2017. Though many agree with this fact, many struggle with the ideas as to why this phenomenon happened and what could have been prevented. Some individuals like Michael E. Mann believe that climate change is the problem; others like Alan Reynolds completely disagree. Michael E. Mann, author of the article "It’s a fact: climate change made Hurricane Harvey more deadly", discusses why Hurricane Harvey was far deadlier due to the human cause of climate change. Alan Reynolds dismisses Mann 's claim in his article "Don 't Blame Hurricane Irma and Harvey on Climate Change" and insists that climate change is not the reason for the high impacts
Additionally, "when the worst hurricane in American history roared into the port of Galveston, Texas, destroying thousands of buildings and killing an estimated 6,000-12,000 people. Harvey, thus far, has accounted for less than 100 fatalities. "(page 3). This shows that Texas was destroyed before by hurricane that caused 6,000 to 12,000 deaths while hurricane harvey only caused less than 100 deaths, which they are trying to say that climate change didn’t cause hurricane harvey. However, I believe that hurricane harvey was caused because of the climate
Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, the citizens of Texas required a lot of help in terms of utilities, food and water. Some citizens homes where flooded, while others were waiting for the inevitable. During these hard times price gouging was a big problem. Things being over priced causing residents to struggle to get supplies for survival. The businesses should be penalised for the price gouging and increase the charges and penalty prices against it for the future because it is against the law, cheating the citizens out of their savings and it is unethical.
Hurricane Katrina. One of the most devastating hurricanes in the history of the US. It had social, political, and economic consequences. It mostly hit Louisiana. The hurricane destroyed a lot of homes and other buildings while it was going on. The flooding had a huge impact itself also. It left millions of people homeless in New Orleans and along the gulf coast. There were so many homeless that they allowed some to live and sleep in a football stadium. It was full with beds everywhere. You could imagine how people were feeling when they were stuck in the areas affected. Anyways, around that time there were looters. They would break open stores and steal the stuff that they needed to survive. It became apparent that as they were receiving barely
As We watch Hurricane Harvey and Irma ripping through our nation coastline causing billions of dollars of damages. As college students and Americans, I think it's our civic duty to help one another. A bunch of Illinois college student organization has come to together with ideas to help our fellow Americans that are affected by this natural disaster. We would appreciate if the professor would be involved with our service. So, our goal is to raise $250 by students donating their money and if that goal is meet professors who sign up who will have to get their face thrown by pies. It would greatly appreciate it if you could participate as many students adore and respect
Many hurricanes that have hit landfall were very dangerous to people, the environment and the economy. Hurricane Harvey took more than 72 lives in Texas alone. Shortly after, Hurricane Irma took the lives of 30 plus lives in the path of her destruction in just the United States, along with the 24 plus in the Caribbean. The wind speeds of up to 160 miles per hour and the water from the hurricane caused major damage to homes, cars, streets and buildings. The wind caused many homes, cars and buildings to blow over, rip off roofs and siding. The strong wind gusts also blew over many trees. With the torrential amounts of rainfall that came through the area, flooding came through shortly after throughout areas in Texas, Louisiana and Florida.
According to scientific research, the average temperature of the earth has risen by between ten and twenty degrees Celsius (M.L. Weitzman, 2008). These high temperatures could well be described as a ‘recipe for disaster’, and could produce results that would be catastrophic on a global scale. What is more alarming however, is that there is already a lot of evidence of predicted results of climate change, for instance, in Australia especially, severe draughts have been common in farming areas in the last few decades, there has been an increase of intense and extreme weather events, for example floods, flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and tornados, almost all of the natural disasters listed have occurred for ‘unknown’ reasons in the past few years. Rises in sea water level and temperature due to higher acid levels caused by global warming, threaten the existence of species and in some areas, entire eco-systems resulting in the loss of natural biodiversity. ‘Climate change is pushing the world to the verge of environmental and economic collapse, whether global deniers want to believe it or not’ (N. Klein, 2011).