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    such as permafrost, climbs in temperature, extinction of species, drought, and fatigue to name a few. Four writers in five different articles discussed the three topics of greenhouse gases, climate change, and causes of global warming. These writers are writer and scholar Bill McKibben in “Think Again: Climate Change” and “How Close to catastrophe”; William J. Broad, writer for the New York Times in “From a Rapt audience, a call to cool the hype”; writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kevin O’Brien

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    Gore’s logical appeal involves the use of vivid graphics to reveal the severity and reality of climate change. He illustrates this appeal to logos further when he asserts, “look how far above the natural cycle this [carbon dioxide level] is. . . . But in the next fifty years, it’s going to continue to go up” (An Inconvenient Truth). A makeshift elevator

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    Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: Rhetorical Analysis In Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, he focuses on the harm global warming does to our planet. He wants to persuade people that global warming is real, and that they should contribute to the effort of slowing, even completely stopping, global warming. Gore uses a variety of ways to appeal to pathos and logos. One of the first things he does, is explain global warming, he them proceeds to show a short, funny cartoon to describe global warming

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    submitted by: Tanvi Rawat Student ID: S3523444 Q.2 what is the relationship between sustainability and anthropogenic climate change, and how can an understanding of these linkages be used to guide policy from the global to the local scale? Ans. Sustainability is promoting social, economic growth with preserving the environment, whereas the Anthropogenic Climate change is influencing natural and human living conditions. With an increase in the risk of disaster which is turning to be a constrain

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    2006 documentary film on climate change/global warming by al gore, aimed at alerting the public to an increasing "planetary emergency" due to global warming, and demonstrations re-enacted incidents from his life story which influenced his concerns about environmental issues. Al gore is adopting the main documentary techniques; montage, the voice of narration and archival footage and to reinforce his bias that we as humans have been contributing to the issue of climate change. in “an inconvenient truth”

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    Al Gore Inconvenient Truth

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    Inconvenient Truth Climate change is the biggest threat to humans in the twentieth first century, and we already feeling it’s affect. Inconvenient truth is a documentary that brings to light the dangers of global warming and is told through the many talks that former vice president and environmentalist Al Gore has given . Inconvenient truth puts into perspective for the audience on how climate change will affect us all negatively by giving us evidence and statistics behind global warming in such

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    regarded people who believe GHGs are not the cause and believe the planet is warming naturally. For example, Sammy Wilson, Northern Irelands’ Environmental Minister has recently claimed that climate change is “beyond our control,” and that the “resources should be used to adapt to the consequences of climate change rather than, King Canute style, vainly trying to stop it”(Monbiot, para. 5). The planet is clearly warming due to elevated GHG levels in the atmosphere; in turn, society has an overwhelming

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    em{An Inconvenient Truth }em is a documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about the endeavor of Al Gore, former United States vice president, to convince the audience that global warming is a severe problem that has influenced the environment and the way humans lived. The film combines apocalyptic rhetoric with other environment rhetorics, including scientific rhetoric, utilitarian rhetoric and aesthetic rhetoric, to persuades the audience apocalyptically that unavoidable and irreparable environment

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    The Kyoto Protocol is a binding international agreement, which began in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. As of June 2013, there were a total of 192 parties participating in the Kyoto Protocol, Canada was no longer one of them. Canada was one of the first to sign the agreement, in 1998; more than 4 years later, Canada formally approved the Kyoto Accord, in 2002. This meant Canada would have to decrease its emissions, by 6% in comparison to 1990 levels (461 Mt), by the year 2012. Despite some efforts, Canada

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    This has to be one of the most important issues of the current times because life as we know it will never be the same if something isn 't done. The problem is that we as humans are naturally selfish, so we think that we aren’t the problem. But the truth is we are, mostly to due with our greediness. We over-consume as a whole, we waste too much, we feel entitled and better than others, the list goes on and on. The fact of the matter is that there is no need for us to be all of this. We should feel

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