Monday, January 12, 2009

Journal entry #2

Claim - The government is ignoring global warming.

Data - The earth is warming, but the government is putting of talks on the enviroment.

Warrant - Global Warming is bad for the earth.

Grounds - Global Warming changes the climate of different regions making it uninhabitable for different species.

Backing - The loss of certain species can disrupt the natural order of the world possibly affecting human life as we know it.

Qualifier - The government is not ignoring the issue they are just caring for more pressing issues at the time.

Conditions of rebuttal - The earth goes through cycles continually warming and cooling. Using Ireland as a microcosm of the world it is to cold to farm there when in the past it was a great farmland. Lightning storms releases ozone which will heal the ozone layer covering earth.

1 comment:

  1. The warrant that would connect the following is:

    Claim - The government is ignoring global warming.

    Data - The earth is warming, but the government is putting of talks on the enviroment.


    Warrant: Putting off talks is one way of ignoring an issue

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