Tyrese Turner

Climate Change

Nov 22, 2018

Pros and Cons of Climate Change

Throughout history, global warming and climate change have become inevitable stains

that are harmful to humanity as well as animals but sometimes climate change can be beneficial

as well. The purpose of these articles is to inform as well as, persuade a broad audience to

become more concerned about global warming issues. One of the articles I will be rhetorically

analyzing is Bruce Stokes’,In “Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for

Limiting Emissions, ”.” Bruce Stokes uses arrangement, style, and delivery to help build his

logos and ethos towards his audience. AlsoAlso, throughout his article, Bruce Stokes will

provide a variety of facts, statistics which will help build his rhetorical effectiveness. On the

other hand, “How can climate change affect animals,” NASA uses style, delivery, and imagery

that will help build their logos, ethos, and pathos. The purpose of these articles is to inform and

persuade a broad audience to get informed about the global warming issues. Stokes wrote this

article from an anti-global warming perspective. Most of the All of the statistics ahe presented

were aboutbout the negative effects that global warming has on the world’s atmosphere and our

livesd. However, the benefits of the statistics are benefits the logos and ethos aspect of them,

these rhetorical strategies he is implementing benefits his purpose and gives him access to a

broader audience. While on the other hand, NASA wrote their article from a more positive

positive climate change perspective on climate but its only temporary. NASA used basic but
intriguing images, as well as different fonts types that may catch the audience’s attention. The

different visuals they use helps them to employ rhetoric among their audience. .

In Stokes article he discusses how the world leaders will meet in Paris to talk about

different global agendas and climate change agreements that every nation can abide by for the

years to come. When polling the nations “Majorities in all 40 nations polled say it is a serious

problem,” (Stokes 1) which conveys how important and big of an issue global warming is across

the world. The fact that the author included this small polling information has a great effect on

how people will view this article because this connotes a feeling of connection between the

people of America and the world. Stokes then begins to talk about the differences the nations

face on the global warming topic. Americans and the Chinese economies are responsible for the

“greatest annual CO2 emissions, are among the least concerned.” (Stokes 1) Incorporating this

gives his article conflict because most people wondering what America and China are doing that

makes them responsible for the greatest annual CO2 emissions. This little piece of evidence

catches the audience attention because of this cause controversy among these nation’s people,

overall making things more interesting. The nations agreeing to these terms will have a large

impact on the world and a greater impact of how people will live because most countries believe

that the richer and wealthier countries should do more for the climate change because they

produce most of the greenhouse gases. The potential consequences of climate change are

droughts, severe weather, long periods of hot weather and rising sea levels. Stokes targeted

audience is very broad due to all the points he touches on in this article. Throughout this article,

the word “world” keeps reappearing, which elucidates how this is a world-renowned issue. This

recurring word draws a very broad audience by itself due to the fact that everyone who reads this
article lives somewhere in this world, which makes them relevant to the topic at hand. The reader

uses detailed imagery and states interesting facts about many different places in the world. “In

Brazil, home of one of the world’s largest carbon sinks, 86% believe climate change is a very

serious concern.” (Stokes 2) Stokes including this small statistic has a large impact on the people

from Brazil because he shows that they are important by incorporating this fact about them in

this article. He builds his logos and ethos with the Brazilian nation because of the way he shows

their significance to the climate change issue. NASA’s targeted audiences are animal lovers and

nature lovers. They do a good job by including images of the animals they are specifically

talking about. This gives the audience a visual of what NASA is actually writing about. NASA

also uses a lot more images to help give the reader a visual of the marmots and how they interact

with their habitats. NASA has already built their ethos, which is credibility when they even

decided to write about climate change. NASA is a very credible source, as well as reliable as far

as information goes.

In NASA’s article, they speak about early spring and how it positively affects the Formatted: Indent: First line: 0.5"

marmots in these affected areas. NASA expounds on how “for the past 30 years or so, spring

temperatures have been coming one day earlier each year.”(.” (NASA 1) This little fact about

spring is important because it gives the marmots one more whole month to eat plenty more green

plants and get fatter before they have tomust go into that long fall hibernation. This also means

that the marmots have more food that’s stored in their bodies, which means more of them are

surviving the winters with ease. NASA builds theirtheir , ethos and pathos with this statistic

because nature and animal lovers are appreciating their knowledge about the topic at hand. In

this article, Stokes discusses how the world leaders will meet in Paris to talk about different

global agendas and climate change agreements that every nation can abide by for the years to
come. When polling the nations “Majorities in all 40 nations polled say it is a serious

problem,”(Stokes 1) which conveys how important and big of an issue global warming is across

the world. The fact that the author included this small polling information has a great effect on

how people will view this article because this connotes a feeling of connection between the

people of America and the world. Stokes then begins to talk about the differences the nations

face on the global warming topic. Americans and the Chinese economies are responsible for the

“greatest annual CO2 emissions, are among the least concerned.” (Stokes 1) Incorporating this

gives his article conflict because most people wondering what America and China are doing that

makes them responsible for the greatest annual CO2 emissions. This little piece of evidence

catches the audience attention because of this cause controversy among these nation’s people,

overall making things more interesting. The nations agreeing to these terms will have a large

impact on the world and a greater impact of how people will live because most countries believe

that the richer and wealthier countries should do more for the climate change because they

produce most of the greenhouse gases. The potential consequences of climate change are

droughts, severe weather, long periods of hot weather and rising sea levels.

Stokes targeted audience is very broad due to all the points he touches on in this article.

Throughout this article, the word “world” keeps reappearing, which elucidates how this is a

world-renowned issue. This recurring word draws a very broad audience by itself because

everyone who reads this article lives somewhere in this world, which makes them relevant to the

topic at hand. The reader uses detailed imagery and states interesting facts about many different

places in the world. “In Brazil, home of one of the world’s largest carbon sinks, 86% believe

climate change is a very serious concern.” (Stokes 2) Stokes including this small statistic has a

large impact on the people from Brazil because he shows that they are important by
incorporating this fact about them in this article. He builds his logos and ethos with the Brazilian

nation because of the way he shows their significance to the climate change issue. NASA’s

targeted audiences are animal lovers and nature lovers. They do a good job by including images

of the animals they are specifically talking about. This gives the audience a visual perspective on

what NASA is writing about. NASA also uses a lot more images to help give the reader a visual

of the marmots and how they interact with their habitats. NASA has already built their ethos,

which is credibility when they even decided to write about climate change. NASA is a very

credible source, as well as reliable as far as information goes.

Stokes uses arrangement and delivery to build up his credibility by citing concrete Formatted: Indent: First line: 0"

statistics and facts about climate change. In his article, he begins to cite very compelling and

reliable sources such as, “In the United States, 45% believe global climate change is a very

serious problem. One-in-four Americans do not consider climate change to be a serious problem,

one of the highest shares of all the nations surveyed. Only Israelis (30%) and Russians (26%) are

more likely to say that climate change is not a serious concern.” (Stokes 2) The word “serious”

continues to be used repeatedly. The word serious connotes a sense of a stern attitude. This

conveys how significant this problem is to the author and why people feel that he knows what he

is talking about.

NASA builds pathos, and logos by including facts about the climate and specific animals that

most people wouldn’t know about. Additionally, they choose to include images and graphs that

are specific to his information. The images and graphs they incorporated in his text are very

appealing to those who are more visual people and that is another way he has tomust widen the

audience that he is trying to reach. Their font styles and delivery of information to images are

very appealing to mostly everyone because he includes a lot of pictures and graphs to give a
visual, a lot of facts and statistics for those who enjoy reading the information instead of just

looking at a picture of what he is talking about, which also helps build up his credibility and

broaden his audience throughout the world. Stokes uses arrangement and delivery to build up his

credibility by citing concrete statistics and facts about climate change. In his article, he begins to

cite very compelling and reliable sources such as, “In the United States, 45% believe global

climate change is a very serious problem. One-in-four Americans do not consider climate change

to be a serious problem, one of the highest shares of all the nations surveyed. Only Israelis (30%)

and Russians (26%) are more likely to say that climate change is not a serious concern.” (Stokes

2) The word “serious” continues to be used repeatedly. The word serious connotes a sense of a

stern attitude. This conveys how significant this problem is to the author and why people feel

that he knows what he is talking about.

Even though, Stokes starts off his essay strong by adequately informing the audience

about climate change. Towards the end, he begins to add his own ideas and opinions which

overall causes this article to lose some credibility because the audience will see how he loses his

focus just to push forward his own ideas and logic. The audience could see how big of an issue

climate change is to everyone around the world. This helps to expand the audience’s perspective

on the topic at hand and this makes the audience have a broader view, which overall helps the

author build up his ethos and logos. Stokes rhetorical strategies and canons help him build a

concrete and compelling article on the dangers of climate change and why they should resolve

the issue. Overall, I felt Stokes article was more rhetorically effective due to the fact of how

credible he was because of the great evidence he included and the way he delivered it.

Work Cited
● NASA. “How Can Climate Change Affect Animals?” NASA, NASA,

climatekids.nasa.gov/sheep-marmots/.

● Stokes, Bruce, et al. “Global Concern about Climate Change, Broad Support for Limiting

Emissions.” Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project, 5 Nov. 2015,

www.pewglobal.org/2015/11/05/global-concern-about-climate-change-broad-support-

for-limiting-emissions/.