Jonah Goldberg makes some interesting points in "Global Cooling Costs Too Much" (Presence, p. 686), but I found only one that was supported by a citation. He refers to an atmospheric scientist who suggested in Science magazine that we might need 30 international climate agreements to halt global warming.
For your response, pick an assertion Goldberg makes that you think needs more support. Suggest where Goldberg could find research to back himself up.
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Jonah Golberge make some interesting ponts about global warming. He really convinces the reader that it may be impracticable and far fetch to stop Global Warming. There is a spot in his article that lacks great support. Where he says that ethanol requires more energy to make to it produces. Most people do agree with that statement, however, it seems to be only a matter of opion unless he has claim that backs it up.
ReplyDeleteJonah Goldberg makes a point that global warming would get more expensive for us but he does not say how or have any proof to how much or what would make it more expensive. He simply states his opinion that he thinks it will get more expensive for us. He could probably find research to prove this if he found facts or statistics that showed global warming costing us more money as the years go on. –Rachel Hicks
ReplyDeleteA point that Jonah Golberge makes that needs more support is that"...China alone plans on building an additional 2,200 coal plants by 2030." This is an important point in the article because the world should be trying to work together to slow down global warming. His sources and support that he could use would be journals or even the multiple news articles that are available on the web.
ReplyDeleteA point that Jonah Golberge makes that i believe needs more support is, "Even if the Kyoto Protocol were put into effect tomorrow — a total impossibility — we’d barely affect global warming." It seems like this is just an opinion and without actually having this go into effect or another like it they wouldnt know how fast it would affect global warming.
ReplyDeleteJonah Goldberg's statistic of the .07 degree increase in the earth's atmosphere coincides with the 1,800 GDP (gross domestic product) is convincing. The clear correlation between the vast increase in the world's industrious productivity and the warming climate is not surprising. Mr. Goldberg should talk about that more.-Kyle Downing
ReplyDeletein global cooling costs too much Jonah Goldberg makes a statement saying that even if the Kyoto Protocol went into effect tomorrow it would halve next to no impact. show me some facts Jonah....show them....
ReplyDeleteThe author makes interesting correlatons between the amount of human dependencies on machines and the rise in atmospheric temperatures. such as GDP increase and the .07 increase in temperature. He also purposes a plausible solution to the problem by having certain nations limit their CO2 output to help limit the rise in global "cooling"- Dylan Rediker
ReplyDeleteVery interesting article, Johan mentions
ReplyDelete"Even so, the costs are just too high for too little payoff" I think that he could go into further detail on the costs of global warming and how much money will really be needed to change the way we think about it and go about change. He could show some facts to back up that the costs are too high for little payoff.