Global Warming Heats Up
This article talks about how we all thought that global warming was something that could possibly become a problem many many years from now. “…it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem. But glaciers, it turns out, can move with surprising speed, and so can nature.” We can hardly deny that global warming isn’t occuring any more. With things like cyclones with wind bursts that reached 125 m.p.h., droughts, and glaciers retreating 140 ft. per year how could any one argue against it?
I completly agree with this article. Honeslty it is one of the best i have read. Not only the arguements made to persue you, but the way the person aproches the subject and their style of writing. Im deffinatly jelouse. 
The way they talk about how the earth is “ill.” When they say that “The image of Earth as organism… has probably been overworked, but that’s not to say the planet can’t behave like a living thing, and these days, it’s a living thing fighting a fever. From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts, the global climate seems to be crashing around us.” it makes me think. Not that Im trying to say the earth is actually alive like you and me, but that in a sence it is.. we are polluting it and causing to become sick, and its fighting back. I thought that was really cool.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:44 am
That was a very interesting article–thanks for finding it. I particularly liked the pictures of the retreating glacier.
How wonderful that you notice the writing style–can you pinpoint what you admire about it? Look at an individual sentence and see how he constructs it–is it the syntax (the order of the words) or the diction (word choice) that makes the sentence work? Also pay close attention to the verb in the sentence–interesting verbs often create interesting sentences.
Although you cannot use the photos in your segment (they are copyrighted), you (or someone in your group) could make a representational drawing of the glaciers and make a still image of that.
Please go back and edit for spelling and capitalization. And just so you know:
cite=verb (to cite the source)
site=noun (the website, or I visited a site).
Glad you’re getting caught up!