Climate Change Is A Myth By Dean Burnett: Article Analysis

Jaded Mozley Dr. Biswas WRTR 1313 Writing and critical reasoning 7 march 2024 Analyzing Fallacies and Strategies in Climate Change Discourse In his article, "Climate Change is a Myth," Dean Burnett suggests that a whole network of corrupt scientists, and, of course, nefarious fear-mongering governments must be behind the hoax. Burnett does his utmost to bring down to size the scientific consensus of anthropogenic climate change by means of ad hominem attacks and strawman arguments. His arguments, however, contain quite a bunch of fallacies, like cherry-picking evidence and appealing to authority, and thus give way to a serious gap between his claims and the evidence given. Deciphering these fallacies and what they indeed suggest will help one

He sensationalizes the activists and scientists as the most horrid fear-peddlers and manipulators, arguing from radical agendas, and lets the readers know that their arguments can be disarmed without actually engaging with the scientific evidence. Towards the end, the author really let himself down by launching ad hominem attacks, questioning the motives and integrity of the climate scientists he says have been on a mission to put up a big hoax. The author finishes the article with sarcasm, pointing to a preference for life on some other planet rather than life full of suffering under "rigorous scientific control" on Earth. In other words, fallaciously, the myth of climate change has been realized due to the motives of corrupt scientists and fear-mongering governments. The main claim is that the evidence for climate change cannot sustain evaluation. Glaring claims include dismissing the increasing sea level and melting of the glaciers as exaggerations, relating food crises and mass extinctions to conspiracies or nature, and blaming climatic scientists for ulterior motives in the creation of a

on anthropogenic climate change, he said. Deniers, in doing so, create a misleading perception of scientific uncertainty and hinder efforts to address the issue effectively. Additionally, they often reference dissenting voices within the scientific community to cast doubt on mainstream climate science, despite the overwhelming consensus among the vast majority of climate scientists regarding the reality of human-induced global warming. Furthermore, deniers frequently employ strawman arguments to misrepresent the positions of climate activists. The author dismisses concerns about rising sea levels by suggesting that places like Atlantis, Miami, or Skegness never existed and ridiculing the idea that melting glacial ice contributes to sea level rise. In doing so, the author constructs a distorted version of the argument for climate change. (Burnett, 2014) They view environmentalists as alarmists or extremists advocating for radical measures to combat climate change. This tactic serves to discredit legitimate concerns about environmental degradation and downplay the urgency of addressing climate