How many devastating natural disasters have you read or seen on the news in the past 6 months? It is amazing how many hurricanes, earthquakes, and fires that have been occurring recently. With disasters comes news stories, and with news stories come many biases. Our media is constantly using bias to convince the audience to be in favor or against an idea. We see these biases in our mass and niche media. It is important to look into these biases before creating an opinion. The question is, are natural disasters caused by climate change? Looking into the biases in our media will help form an opinion about this question and possibly change one’s initial thoughts. There are many ideas about why climate change could be the possible cause of natural …show more content…
An article titled He Has A Reason': How Natural Disasters Test The Faithful talks about God being all powerful and that he is the reason natural disasters exist. Believers in God say that the reason natural disasters are created is to bring out the compassion in others. This radio piece does not present any statistics as to God being the creator and reason for these natural disasters. The pastor speaking in this piece uses scare tactics to state we need to be merciful for what we have done and be right with God to save yourself from the disasters. Many believers know that God is the creator of natural disasters and do not question the lack of statistics behind it. While everyone else may laugh and think it is a ridiculous statement. Religion has a huge bias for those who do not believe in a religion and for those who do. An author's background will affect the belief of causes of natural disasters may …show more content…
This radio segment named, Recent Natural Disasters Revive Political Discussions On Climate Change, republicans and democrats and what their views on the most current natural disasters. They speak about if they believe it is due to climate change or other means. A few fallacies were discovered in this piece. A democrat states, “Oh, we figured climate change was there. I know. I believe in climate change, badder storms every year,” The speaker knows that climate change is something happening. He is not a scientist or an expert, he is just simply saying his opinion. He does not have any facts to back up his knowledge and certainty on the subject. This statement of his is incredible. He does not have any background on the topic or any statistics to back it up. The other fallacy discovered was an association fallacy. When one of the republicans was interviewed to see if she thought that these natural disasters were linked to climate change she laughed. She thought it was a joke because she is a republican and this subject is not one they typically believe in. With these comments, generally you see democrats are really concerned and focused on talking about climate change and republicans do not care and do not want to talk about it. It is not fair to base the whole idea of the republican and democratic parties on these people's statements but some of the audience may. The audience that is not very educated may hear
crcation are get involved in the disaster, which is due to the relationship between God and man.
“Lecture” and “boring” are two words often synonymous. A lecture will frequently feature a deluge of scientific data, equitable facts, well-supported inferences, unbiased jargon, charts, graphs, and statistics. And a bored audience. While a lecture can pioneer new scientific exploration and present phenomenal achievement, it holds little value if it cannot inspire its audience. In order for a lecture to interest the everyday individual, it needs to provide a clear connection to the everyday world. Firstly, the speaker must deliver his or her data in a discussion format comprehensible to the audience. Then, the speaker must excite the audience with powerful emotional appeals. An effective lecture – now, truly, a presentation – appeals to an audience by accentuating a necessity and evoking an enthusiasm. The audience finds an immediate, personal significance within the vast data. In his 2006 documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore uses a combination of appeals to logic and emotion to stress the urgency of the global warming crisis to an audience of everyday individuals.
Climate change is one of the greatest problems that our society faces today. This issue has been the topic of many debates between the Democrats and Republicans. According to a recent poll taken in July of this year, seventy-one percent of Democrats believe that the Earth’s climate is warming due to human activity, while only twenty-seven percent of Republicans this. Democrats and Republicans have different views, but climate change is very real and needs to be slowed down.
If one looks at disasters in this way, it is much easy for it to be rationalized. How do people who do not believe in a God and its plan for everyone deal with the fact that so many people perished from one act. There is no good reason for mass amounts of people to die, but if something greater comes from it regarding the well-being of many more people it makes it more bearable.
It is common for an individual to mentally categorize controversial topics, such as climate change, in order to efficiently form their opinions on the matter. Often, it is the case that controversial science becomes politicized and categorized into party affiliations. More than 85% of Americans agree that “even if it brings no immediate benefits, scientific research that advances the frontiers of knowledge is necessary and should be supported by federal government” according to the National Science Board (2008). Ame...
In paragraph 4, Gore uses anaphora when he states, “We know that hurricanes....We know that heat-trapping gasses...We know that, in the past thirty years...” He uses this appeal to emphasize that many people know the havoc that global warming produces, but they are not attempting to prevent it. Gore also uses anaphora in paragraph eleven to emphasize how the nation and the world have overcome many extreme challenges in the past and can solve the current crisis by using the many technologies that currently exist. Gore uses hypophora and procatalepsis in paragraphs nine and eleven to anticipate the audience’s objections or questions and to refute or elaborate on the concerns. He states, “Why is this happening? Because the relationship between humankind and Earth has been utterly transformed.” Gore uses a more colloquial diction and avoids the use of slang in his essay to relate to the occasion and his audience. His syntax includes mainly terse statements and sentences. It also is straightforward and easy to understand. He does, however, include a few complex sentences to further his point. In paragraph three, Gore uses a logical fallacy, begging the question, when he states, “Global warming may not affect the frequency of hurricanes, but it makes the average hurricane stronger, magnifying its destructive power.” This is a logical fallacy because he is stating what he should be
In 2010, and every year since, Bernie Sanders has strongly spoken out against proposals to dismantle environmental protection programs. He believes that imminent environmental threats should be treated the same as a doctor would treat a cold or broken bone, with straight to the point scientific facts, not opinions. He states, “...this discussion about global warming is now political, not scientific. And this is absurd…” This statement speaks to the Republican party’s clear refusal to acknowledge that climate change is real and human
Although this is true to some extent, most major newspapers and television news stations report the same stories quantitatively. Global warming is more controversial than ever. On one side of the argument we have scientists, climate change campaigners and the greater majority of the earth’s population who recognise the significance in preserving and taking immediate action against global warming. The media have targeted these people using figurative and emotive language that exploits our morals and values to evoke our willingness for change.
Natural disasters have killed thousands of innocent lives over the past few decades. If people aren't killed, either their home, or someone else they know is killed. Food is destroyed and water is contaminated, leaving people short of basic resources to survive. Through it all, people continue to fight. Many question how a person could take so much destruction and poverty and wonder why they just don't give up. The reason people keep fighting is due to their human instincts to stay alive. However, why do natural disasters only seem to happen to poor countries? In Leonard Pitts article, Sometimes the Earth is Cruel, he questions this, the answer is, the devil, God, and geography.
...tributions to the situation are still a very confusing topic to most people around the world. The media has kept the climate change discussions alive through the decades and many international organizations have tried to find solutions to climate change adaptation. But many have criticized the media coverage, especially the U.S media, because they did not emphasize on the solutions, the revolutionary changes that the developed countries and oil companies must do to preserve our atmosphere. Plus they did not emphasize on the help the poor nations need in order to face the mitigation and adaption for the climate change. Also because in most developing countries the climate change and the global warming is still an abstract subject, governments must work with journalists and scientists to improve the media in order to increase people understanding of the situation.
In chapter eight of Acts of God, Ted Steinberg discusses how natural disasters impact the poor in the United States and how the US government has historically responded to natural disasters. According to the text, there is a tendency among policymakers to blame calamity/disaster on nature; this perspective has led to much difficulty in disaster relief efforts. In the text, Steinberg implies that the government has typically been inadequate at helping the poor in disaster’s wake.
Many people dedicate their lives to spread the message about climate change being real. Even though some change in the climate is natural, many events that have happened cannot be explained away by nature. Climate change is causing damage to the world that is completely irreversible. Nasa says, “Most scientists say it 's very likely that most of the warming since the mid-1900s is due to the burning of coal, oil and gas. Burning these fuels is how we produce most of the energy that we use every day” (nasa). The energy that we use daily makes our life easier, but it hurts the earth. Why does the government still allow us to use these things? Science has shown us that sea levels are rising in many parts of the world. Warm weather is causing glaciers to melt which results in the sea level rising. Earth 's average temperature has been rising for the last century in a half; and there has also been a steady rise in ocean temperature since 1969. It is said that climate control is man made and it is dangerous. On the other side of the argument, many people do not believe that climate change is real. They argue that their has not been a big temperature change in almost two decades. They also bring up the point of there not being enough data in the climate history to draw the conclusion of what is happening in the climate now is abnormal. Scientist started to record climate change around the 1800’s which many people believe is not enough data to do a comparison. Another reason some believe that climate change is not real is because of some instances where a scientist predicts a date of a significant climate change never happens. Rinkesh writes, “ For example:- Al Gore predicted that all Arctic ice would be gone by 2013. But, on contrary Arctic ice is up by 50% since 2012” (conserve-energy-future). Many people find that these reasons are why climate change is not
Climate change has been an extremely controversial topic in recent history and continues to create much debate today. Many questions concerning climate change’s origins and its potential affect on the globe are not fully understood and remain unanswered. What is climate change? Is climate change happening? Is it a natural cycle of the world or are there other catalysts involved such as human activity? What proof is there? What data correlations show climate change is accelerated by humans? How serious is climate change and how will it affect the future of our globe? What are we doing to address climate change? Should we really be concerned about climate change? Questions such as these have made climate change a very serious issue in today’s world and created the ideology of climatism. The issue of climate change has affected many different aspects of our lives and the world we live in. Policymaking, human activism, technologies, emission control, global warming, alternative energy sources and many other things have been greatly affected by the mania of climate change. This research report will present climate change in a light of common sense and rationality that will take a grounded discussion of the science behind climate change, global warming, human activity, and how the ideology of climatism has corrupted and driven the actions to combat climate change.
The Earth is currently locked in perpetuating spiral of climate change. While the global climate has unarguably been changing since the dawn of it's manifestation, the once steadied ebb and flow of climate change has become increasingly more unpredictable.The risk of rising sea levels, and drought plaguing the fresh water supply, during the time that flooding and sporadic storm conditions turn once fully inhabited regions into uninhabitable death traps. Climate change catalyzed by human's increased production of carbon dioxide, is more noticeable than ever in our recorded history (United States, 2014 National Climate Assessment). Thankfully however, with the changing weather conditions due to carbon related emissions, the change in public opinion about their personalized influence on climate change is also increasing. Kevin Liptak Jethro Mullen, and Tom Cohen note that In reaction to the most recent governmental report on climate change, even the U.S. government believes that a stronger approach needs to be taken to correct our self-generated cataclysm.
The English writer John Ruskin once said “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather,” (John Ruskin Quotes - Page 4) but I’m sure there are many who disagree with him. Nature’s beauty is a gift from God, but occasionally nature is not so aesthetically pleasing. Natural disasters occur often around the world destroying the lives of many on a regular basis. An example could be the recent flood victims of Australia or even last year’s earthquake in Haiti. There are several types of natural disasters¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬- from earthquakes to hurricanes and floods; they often strike without warning and leave a path of destruction and despair in their path.