Quin Madden
Mr. Ippolito
Biology D-Odd
16 October, 2016
Current Event
SCHWARTZOCT, JOHN. "A Milestone for Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere." New York Times. N.p., 3 Oct. 2016. Web. 16 Oct. 2016.
In the article, “A Milestone For Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere”, The author proves that the carbon dioxide levels are reaching uncomfortably high levels. One of the main issues this article talks about how carbon dioxide levels are climbing. In Mauna Loa, Hawaii, reported that levels had recently risen above the symbolically important figure of 400 parts per million, and were likely to stay that way “for the indefinite future.” It has been awhile since the carbon dioxide levels have reached so high. This makes it almost impossible to prevent global temperatures from rising beyond the goal of two degrees Celsius. Dr. James Hansen a Nasa climatologist said “if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted.”. The problem is media is not promoting climate change and it needs to be tended too. However, Gavin Schmidt, a scientist who heads a NASA climate research unit in New York, agreed. “400 ppm is definitely a milestone, but there’s no evidence it’s a tipping point,”. Climate change is a huge issue and our media is not talking about it enough. This article talks about how climate change could possibly end the world we know and love. This article gives a good understanding of how high our carbon dioxide levels are reaching.
Overall I thought the article could have given more information about how they took the data. The article did a great job on finding reliable sources. One of the pro’s in the article was how the Author’s made sure to say specifically what happened in the article. They also did not explain why the goal is two degrees Celsius. This could be improved by breaking it down and explaining it so the average human can understand it.
ReplyDeleteMy fellow classmate Quin Madden wrote a very insightful review on the article “A Milestone For Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere.” Quin did an excellent job explaining how the carbon dioxide levels are rising and explains how in order to stop this we need to focus more on climate change. Quin also does a great job pulling quotes from the article to back up his point of view. And lastly he did a very nice job summarizing the article, so that even if someone didn’t read the article, and just read Quin’s review on the article, they would still be highly informed of the important and necessary information.
One area of improvement is that Quin could of further elaborated on the negative effects of climate change. He states that the increase in carbon dioxide lead to climate change and how people need to stop this but didn’t go into depth when explaining the negative effects associated with climate change. Another area of improvement is that he could've provided statistics or numbers on how high our carbon dioxide levels are currently and how high they are expected to reach if people don’t take action.
Overall, Quin wrote an excellent review that was both informative and insightful. I was shocked when reading “if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted.” Through this review I realized that people need to start taking measures to stop the rise in carbon dioxide levels, because if we don’t it can drastically affect our world.
For this current event review i read the current event produced by Quin Madden about the article "A Milestone for Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere." which covered the topic of climate change and how humanity is destroying the earth. Overall I believe that Quin did a decent job on this report. One of the things that he did well was he chose a topic that is incredibly relevant and important which makes connecting to and understanding the article easier. Another thing that Quin did well was that he made good use of quotes. Not only were the quotes that he used relevant, but they were also easy to understand, a quote that exemplifies this is “400 ppm is definitely a milestone, but there’s no evidence it’s a tipping point,”. Over all the best thing that Quin did was that he clearly conveyed his point, I appreciate the fact that he did this because I see too often that during a current event a student will have fantastic quotes and a great article to base their work on, yet their work is destroyed by the fact that they seemingly had no idea what they were writing about and so, they could not formulate a central idea.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, this current event did have some problems. One such problem was that there was not enough quantitative data. The only quantitative data that was included was that carbon dioxide levels had reached 400 parts per million. Although meaningful, this small amount of data was not enough and more data would have been appreciated. Although there was an unfortunate lack of data, the worst part of this current event was the grammatical errors. One such error was in the sentence “One of the main issues this article talks about how carbon dioxide levels are climbing.” where Quin seemingly left out the word “is”.
Although this article has not left any new impression on me, it has deepened the one given by global warming as a whole. This article also encourages me to walk or bike places instead of drive.
My classmate, Quin did a current event review on the article “A milestone for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere”, by John Schwartzoct. The article explains how carbon dioxide levels on earth are increasing. I think that Quin did a great job with his review, one reason I think this is because he did a good job incorporating statistics. An example of this is when he told the reader how, “[carbon dioxide levels] had recently risen above 400 parts per million”. Another thing I think he did well was how he was able to backup his claims with information found by scientists, this also made his review more credible. A final thing I think Quin did well was how he was able to incorporate quotes to support his claim.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I think that Quin did a good job overall I still think there are ways he could have improved his review. One way to improve his review is that he could have credited the author in the beginning of the article so readers wouldn’t have to go to the citation to find out who wrote the article. Also Quin could have explained his statistics in more depth. An example of this is how he didn’t explain what parts per million meant.
Overall I think that Quin did a great job with his review and I learned alot about the topic. But I was surprised and scared to find out how much we are harming our earth. And if we do not take action soon the earth as we know it will be gone forever.
Citation:
A Milestone for Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
SCHWARTZOCT, JOHN. "A Milestone for Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere." New York Times. N.p., 3 Oct. 2016. Web. 16 Oct. 2016.
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Madden, Quin. "A Milestone for Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere." Bronxville HS Core Biology:. N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 23 Oct. 2016
For my Current Event Comment I reviewed my fellow student Quin Madden’s assignment. In his Current Event he analysed the article a Milestone for Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere. In his analysis he did many things well. For example he put a lot of evidence into his statements which made them more effective. A statement without evidence has little use because it proves nothing. Another thing that Quinn did well is that he explained why his points pose a threat to us. He says that climate change can result in catastrophe and says that media should report on it more often to get the word out. Another great thing that Quinn did in his essay is that he used many different sources, including various people, to prove his argument. The more sources you have to back up your argument the stronger your argument is.
ReplyDeleteEven though Quinn’s essay has a lot of positives there is quite a few negatives. One major weakness that I noticed is that it seems that he has directly copy pasted most of the article he wrote about into his essay. The white background gives it away and there is a simple way to fix this. He would simply have to write the article in his own words and that would make his statement a lot more original. Another weakness in his review is that he could have listed more effects of climate change because he only said that CO2 levels are rising. This problem can be fixed by simply adding more side effects to CO2 rising.
This article taught me that climate change is a serious problem and if we keep going in the same direction it will only be a couple centuries before the earth conks out. I chose this article because I wanted to educate myself on climate change more. Now if I ever become successful I will try and help the environment