Bill Blakemore Who's Most To Blame For Global Warming Summary

In the article, “Who’s ‘Most to Blame’ for Global Warming”, Bill Blakemore explains about the problem of global warming and who is blaming who for the CO2 in the air and whose fault it is for putting it in the air. Blakemore shows many graphs and proves each side of the country that was blamed and backed up each side. He favored none but sincerely explains what they contributed with their pollution. Bill Blakemore gives a strong argument about how it is no one to blame for global warming since the whole world is to blame.

Blakemore has a strong argument about why no one should be blamed because everyone has contributed to global warming. He does a good job for showing his opinion but not letting it overpower what his point was about no one

is to blame and does a good job for showing what each country has done to add to the pollution in the air.

Blakemore adds informative charts about what each country has done to add to global warming and what certain countries have done in the past that could have affected the world now; each chart had much information on what country or what was happened to the world I periods of time. The charts gave more information and gave a strike of discussion on what each meant. His argument explains how no one is to blame and that no one should be pointing fingers at one another, “Who’s most to blame for global warming? Nobody meant it to happen. But it has, and there’s no debate among the world’s scientists about which country is ‘most responsible’” (354), what Blakemore was trying to point out was nobody was to blame because we all want to help the earth but do not know what has happened and do not want to be apart of what we all did. However, Blakemore did leave some holes of information about each country but, with extra graphs and other information from other countries, which summed it altogether. With his strong argument, he shows the audience his stance and backs it up with facts, “Note that, after falling out of the atmosphere quickly during the first 50 years to about a third, the ‘decay’ of the CO2, emissions slows dramatically. Twenty-seven percent of it is still up there after 100 years, 17 percent after 500

years, and 14 percent after 1000 years.” (355). This was one of his main facts and important statements to his argument about no one is to blame for; this helps show what was going on and how global warming began and how it first started in Europe and then spreading across land and sea and filling in Blakemore’s argument. He has a strong argument because he explains why none of this is anyone’s fault because no one meant this to happen and because everyone is adding onto global warming and either helping it or making it worse.
Putting this together, Blakemore’s statement was letting the audience know that no one had the intention to start global warming and showing why all of us are adding to it. Although this article was supposedly longer than others, Blakemore showed his point of how none is to blame and how he proves it with charts and facts that help back up his argument. Blakemore keeps a persistent tone on what he stands and only gave in facts about how none were to blame. He tied things up with the thought of how all can help slow down or even end global warming instead of letting one country do all.