http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/07/climate_change_marco_rubio_doubts_global_warming.html
In
the article Phil Plait wrote on February 7th, he criticizes Marco
Rubio for his response towards the global warming issue. Plait introduces by explaining
who Marco Rubio, a United States legislator, and says what angered him at
first. He even gave a link to a video showing Marco Rubio responding to the
question “Do you see global warming as a threat to Florida [Rubio’s home
state]?”. Plait supports the first part of Rubio’s response and provides
scientific evidence to back him up, but then he explains that such climate
changes are extremely rare. When Rubio’s says that he has seen reasonable
debate on the issue, Plait contradicts him by saying that these “debates” are
carried out by deniers of global warming “are not climate scientists, twist
data, leave out critical information, use cherry-picked graphs, and resort to
outrageous ad hominems to cast doubt on the reality of global warming.” He ends
by displaying his anger against people who deny global warming and says that “we
need to stop fiddling while the world burns, and start putting out this fire.”
The
author’s purpose in writing this article is to say how Marco Rubio is
unreasonable and is wrong with his opinion that global warming is directly
caused by human actions. Along with that, he also wants to persuade people who
agree with Rubio to realize that global warming is real and the drastic climate
changes are results of human actions. Plait uses a lot of evidence to support
his views, even the views he shares with Rubio. One would think Plait uses ad
hominem, attacking Marco Rubio, but he actually attacks his argument fervently
since he completely disagrees with him. The language is informal, using first
person and including the reader as well as using contractions. Plait is
effective to achieve his purpose since he uses direct language and a lot of
evidence to reject Rubio’s argument.
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