Extreme Heat in Australia could be Caused by Climate Change
Over the past couple of years, Australia has been suffering under enormous heat, causing Australia to temporarily shut down the Australia Open tennis tournament in January. Scientists are beginning to make a direct connection between these frightful heat waves and the greenhouse gases caused by many human activities. These statements are very bold to make by the science community, but research groups specifically studying this topic have found that heat waves this severe could not have been caused naturally. David Karoly a climate scientist said, “When we look at the heat across the whole 12 months of 2013, we can say that this was virtually impossible without climate change.”
Researchers have used computer analysis in order to document what the climate would be like if if humans had not produced as many greenhouse gases. Although this method isn’t perfect, it has been backed up by an enormous amount of scientists around the world writing research papers on this topic.
Climate change is directly connected to science because if this research was not done by veteran scientists as it has been, people wouldn’t be paying attention to it. Now that scientists have grouped together in order to find information, people around the world are beginning to be more careful about how they are treating the Earth, and thinking about how their actions are directly hurting the Earth. People are still skeptical about the topic of humans changing our climate, but science is still making their message clear to many people around the world.
Justin Gills, the author of this article, did a very good job of introducing this topic, but he left the finding in Australia to stand on its own. Instead of further giving the reader a little more explanation on the history of these findings, since not all readers are experts on this subject. The author then went on to talk about the climate change that is happening in California, and the transition between these two topics was not as smooth as it should have been. Near the end of the article, Gills launched into talking about how scientist were finding a way to make research papers faster. Although this topic was very interesting, it didn’t have any correlation to what the article was supposed to talk about.
posted for C. Kraemer
Gillis, Justin. "Scientists Trace Extreme Heat in Australia to Climate Change." The New York Times.
The New York Times, 29 Sept. 2014. Web. 29 Sept. 2014.
I think the Claire did a great job with this current events report. First of all, her summary was short, concise, and to the point. She did a good job of making it sufficient but not unnecessarily long. Secondly, her critique was very honest and left the reader think about things that they had not thought about themselves. Lastly, I loved her real-world connections. Her thoughts and connections on how this affected the French Open were very informative and thoughtful, and kept the reader hooked.
ReplyDeleteHowever, no article is without flaws. There were a few grammatical mistakes, like missing commas, and there were 2 or 3 run on sentences. Also, I think a bit more background information would have been helpful, seeing as her topic sentence jumped right into the body paragraphs. But these are easy mistakes that are easily fixed. I was most impressed by the real-world connection, about how it shut down the Australian Open. I watch tennis, and I didn't even know that! Overall, Claire did a great job with this informative and interesting report.