Climate Change Rhetorical Analysis

Marshall talks about several different biases that have to do with climate change. He also talks about how people don’t really seem to care about what’s going on in the world around them and even if they do care people wont change things that are in their everyday life because it’s not convenient for them.

Marshall uses the word “cherry-pick” as a way to describe how humans decide if they want to believe in climate change or if they don’t want to believe the evidence that supports it. He is saying that people will go either way. They will believe in climate change or they wont even though the evidence is given to them that would be described as availability bias. Marshall explained that people who believe in climate change will say that it

has been warmer out but he also says that people who don’t believe in climate change will say that it has been colder and that the weather change just happens and its not because of what’s occurring around them. If we are willing to accept that the climate change is occurring and is a threat to us, then we will think extreme weather as evidence.
Also, people who consider climate change and thinks it’s a myth we think of a variable and extreme weather as proof to us. Weather events can’t be a blame with certainty to climate change we are use to them being assumptions and prejudices. That’s where I think Marshall is going with his arguments and that he’s saying people will believe what they want to believe. For most people even if they do believe in climate change they aren’t going to change the things that they do that cause all of it because they don’t care enough to do so.
We think we know everything about the weather and how it changes but as Marshall is saying we really don’t know everything like we think we do. We aren’t educated or skilled enough to judge the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, or sea levels, or the glaciers. He talks about the different biases people have but the way I look at them is that they are a persons excuse not to do something. He talks about cognitive biases and that they are guiding our input of extreme weather events and climate science.
I think several of the biases have came to attention in my life because I have found times when I have been leaded to believe something or people have put things into my head or words in my mouth to get me to believe something which would be considered a cognitive bias. I also have had a time in my life where I either believe in something or I don’t believe in something when the evidence is right in front of me which would be availability bias. I think they run parallel because it’s the exact definition of what I have from what he believes and what he describes.
I think that everyone should be aware of what’s happening and what’s really going on around them. That if the weather changes its not just “normal” or a “everyday” thing and that something is really happening. I think that Marshall does a great way of describing these things to you and making you more aware of what’s happening. He talked about different biases that really do have a connection to the world and a person’s life.