Global Warming Rhetorical Analysis

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Is Global Warming Here?
Is global warming here? The topic of global warming is discussed all around the world. Many people, not just scientists, are trying to find ways to limit the global temperature increase. Journalist Robert Cooke, in his news article “An Arctic Floe of Climate Questions” featured in Newsday on April 18, 2001, underestimates global warming, and says that it does not exist. Cooke is trying to get across the fact that our worries of global warming are premature. He says that the subject of global warming is very complex and subject to short-term fluctuations. Through his use of Ethos, logos, and pathos, he has a laid-back tone in order to convey his message.
Cooke begins his article with pathos by addressing that the austerity of global warming is overestimated. He states that “[r]ecent reports of the North Poles demise are, to borrow from
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The winds are involved in blowing it around.” A large storm is capable for the breaking up and opening up a polynya. “These are known to exist, even at the pole” says George Kukla, a paleoclimatologist at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. In Cooke's article it doesn’t say anything about him doing research so he used other people's research to prove his point on the subject at hand. While just relying on other scientist’s he explained his point of view with other people’s words. Through doing this, he was able to establish his credibility by proving how much research he did on the subject. In Cookes article he is stating that the people’s worries about global warming are premature. Through his use of ethos, pathos, and logos, and sensible organization of his article, he conveys his message, and persuades his audience that global warming is very complex and that it’s something we should not change our lives to change or