“The Green Apple” by David Biello is a scientific essay that states out the problems of the climate change with data, for example, flash floods flash floods, storms, droughts, and increasing temperature. The writer also pointed out the solutions that the U.S. government has been working on in some major metropolises.
Biello addressed the problems with the data provided in numbers, which can let readers to know how serious it is. For example, “Flash floods deposited more than 7000 kilograms of dirt and debris on tracks that stretch more than 1350 kilometers and carry 1.5 billion passengers annually”. Also, Biello mentioned the modeler’s prediction of the seriousness in the future, such as “NASA climate modeler Cynthia Rosenzweig, which predicts a 5 to 10 percent increase in the mean precipitation around New York City by 2080”, and “The panel predicts a temperature rise of 2 to 4 degrees Celsius from the current average temperature of degree C by 2100”.
In “The Arrangement of Scientific Paper”, Alan C. Gross has introduced Baconian Induction and the idea of deduction. In “The Green Apple”, Biello persuades readers to be aware of the climate changes by using the idea of deduction. Aforementioned, Biello gives a lot of example for the disasters and he used the word “predict” quite frequently to address more serious climate problems in the future. After he remarked the climate change impacts that causes catastrophes, he asked the question to the reader, “What can you do to prepare for that?” to enforce the reader to face the problems of global warming and force them to think deeply.
Hey kim, you have tried your best to understand the article and apply the theories of different writers. here you need more quotes from the coursepack readings and from the article. You need to present what are the solution to the future climate change problems and what is encourage for people to do to protect the environment. Also in this assignment, we have to say why the article was "scientic" or acting to be "scientific" and support our argument by the readings of Gross, fahnestock and Secor. I think you have understood the idea of Baconian induction and the idea of deduction but some information is lacking such as how does it go from general to specific and what and how is it trying to persuade the readers that it is "scientic". Next time, you can also have reference to the people and place by looking at information such as it's title and publication, which is also known as contextual approach. I think you have given a very good try to do this assignment and it could be better too.
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