Rhetorical Analysis: Greenland Seasonal Ice Melt

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One particular segment that seems plausible to the audience is the Greenland Seasonal Ice Melt. For one thing, it illustrates how the lowlands around the world are projected to be affected including cities like New York, Florida, Shanghai, Beijing, to name a few. The illustrations used in Al Gore's presentation as one of the many “scare tactics” that highlights the affected areas. Al Gore sheds light on “its vividness and length risk creating the sense that such severe changes cannot be reversed” primarily because this is an act of humanity that cannot be fixed (Johnson 31). With apocalyptic rhetoric used in the movie, the producer, David Guggenheim hopes to trigger doomsday phobia, which is the fear of the world coming to an end among his