Former vice president Al Gore has had a really good year. He won an academy award for his docudrama "An Inconvinient Truth" and also won the nobel prize for his work on global warming. Because vice president Al Gore has dedicated so much time to this cause, that we now have the perfect cognitive schema when it comes to global warming. This mental framwork would most likely look like this: Al Gore, Vice-President, winner of nobel prize, winner of Emmy for "An Inconvinient Truth", global warming advocate, a lot of attention.
After watching the film, i noticed all the various types of appeals Al Gore made to make his point and persuade his audience that global warming is real. There was of course, an appeal to popularity (he used himself), appeal to history (used the "hockey stick" graph"), appeal to authority (droped a lot of experts names of people i don't know) and appeal to emotion (showed the glaciers breaking down before our very eyes). All very effective techniques. In this cartoon clip that i found on youtube, Al Gore describes how global warming happens. Basically, a little girl walks out an ice cream shop and imidiately her ice cream melts, an authority figure is outside to explain why her ice cream melts. The sun beams coming down to earch get "beat up" by the green house gases, traping the sun beams on earth and piling up, causing warming. Take a look! (1:54)
This has got to be the easiest explanation i've ever seen.
After watching the film, i noticed all the various types of appeals Al Gore made to make his point and persuade his audience that global warming is real. There was of course, an appeal to popularity (he used himself), appeal to history (used the "hockey stick" graph"), appeal to authority (droped a lot of experts names of people i don't know) and appeal to emotion (showed the glaciers breaking down before our very eyes). All very effective techniques. In this cartoon clip that i found on youtube, Al Gore describes how global warming happens. Basically, a little girl walks out an ice cream shop and imidiately her ice cream melts, an authority figure is outside to explain why her ice cream melts. The sun beams coming down to earch get "beat up" by the green house gases, traping the sun beams on earth and piling up, causing warming. Take a look! (1:54)
This has got to be the easiest explanation i've ever seen.
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