Global Warming

Although both of these Carolina Reader essays are based on the subject of global warming they actually discuss two different things. Richard Lindzen's essay does not claim that some action should be taken in order to prevent or reduce global warming, but instead, claims that the way global warming is discussed, substantiated, and percieved should be different. He's demanding a new way to inform by gaining credibility for climate alarms, not a new way to emit less toxins or use less gas. The essay by Jeffrey Kluger gives evidence of exactly what Lindzen says he is trying to rid: an alarmist view with little to no credibility that, in the end, has more impact than a professional climatologists opinion. Kluger's dramatic and extensive examples such as, "pump enough CO2 into the sky, and that last part per million of greenhouse gas behaves like the 212th degree Farenheit that turns a pot of water into a plume of billowing steam," can fool the audience into believing that Co2 is killing the earth and the people on it. But Kluger seems to be hiding unstable support behind alot of dramatic words.