Carbon Dioxide Paper Evaluation

1. My groups presentation can be found here
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Acr6x1r26iPAZGR2NHp2djhfMGRwOXpkOWRu&hl=en_US

2. I feel the criteria established for the paper were a thorough means to judge whether the CO2 paper was still legitimate today. They covered the two most important items in my opinion on whether a scientific paper is legitimate or not; the journals that were willing to publish the paper,and the resources used to write the paper.

3. The only true strengths the yes side had was the signed petition stating human induced global warming is a myth, and some of the data sources used to write the article. Otherwise the journals that published the article and the shady history of the author were all weaknesses for the yes side. The no side had all the weaknesses of the yes side as strengths. The non credible journals that published the paper and authors of the paper show that the paper was written in a bias manner in order to provide "evidence" that human induced climate change is a myth.

4. I feel like my group worked really well together. We all paired together well and no one person worked harder than the others.

5. My group did not believe in the point we were arguing at all.

6. Yes, I feel the class did make the correct decision in this debate. It is hard enough to try to convince the general population to take action against global climate change. With illegitimate papers such as the one debated about accessible to the public, it could just make the task of saving ourselves that much harder. I say saving ourselves because that is what we are doing, if humanity does not make right what we have done to the earth it will bury us.

7. In my opinion this statement means that if we continue to abuse the planet by polluting it with what we no longer want. That what we no longer want will end up destroying us.

Humanity has been dumping its unwanted stuff such as chemials, paint consumer products in rivers, land fills and wherever else we please since around the Industrial revolution. A majority of this goes to the ocean where it swirls around affects the water chemistry that helps control our weather. As oceanic water chemistry degrades to below the naturally sustainable level weather patterns begin to become affected. With the severe weather that seems to be getting worse every year. It is only a matter of time until huge earthquakes, terrible flooding, and tornadoes destroy most if not all of us.

8. I take "what we do as individuals matters" to mean that all of us have a part to play in the balance of the environment. Even though it may seem like one person toils do not add up to much, the power of collaboration helps to move mountains. Every action we take to live more sustainable such as turning off not needed lights, carpooling, recycling, all help to use less fossil fuels giving the planet more of a chance to heal itself. Especially when a lot of a civilization is acting in the same manner, otherwise we will be working against each other and end up just hurting ourselves.  

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