Critical analysis of climate change editorials using inductive and deductive reasoning

Global warming has been portrayed as a very complicated issue that continues to bites the heads of many leaders in the current times. The writer of the article has significantly persuaded the readers on how serious the issue of global warming has become, what causes it and how it has been dealt with by various countries and organizations worldwide. The writer uses various devices to convince the reader on the causes of global warming for instance the writer says "Warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder," here the writer emphasizes that it is a great concern on the increase in gases that cause global warming. The writer further shows how there has been a sharp rise in global warming due to global emissions and there is no better way to express this rise but through the use of the statement like use of words "jumping of global emissions by three percent in 2011 and a further jump looms in 2012 of about 2.6%."

The writer shows clearly that while developed countries are working towards the reduction of global emissions, developing countries are struggling with this and there is a sharp disparity between developed and developing countries when it comes to effort to reduce emissions. This he has clearly portrayed by use of rhetorical device in the statement, "But the decline of emissions in the developed countries is more than matched by continued growth in developing countries like China and India." The writer also implies that there have been little or no efforts by many nations to combat global warming and he uses rhetorical device in the statement "Yet nations around the world, despite a formal treaty pledging to limit warming -- and 20 years of negotiations aimed at putting it into effect -- have shown little appetite for the kinds of controls required to accomplish that goal." This statement Puts emphasis on the fact that there was a treaty earlier on, the reference to the treaty is historical illusion that gives the claims he puts forth weight and credibility.

This article is a rhetoric one since the writer by all means tries to persuade the readers on the issue of global warming trough references and illusions as well as varied types of reasoning. The writer largely employs use of rhetoric devices, deductive and inductive reasoning in the statements that he writes. All this are coupled by facts on research that have been conducted and he clearly puts the figures down for readers to see and get convinced when they read the article and get persuaded on just how serious the issue of global warming is and the causes as well as the eventual effects if it is not solved. This article is not an argumentative one since there are no arguments raised on the issue rather only forms of persuasions by the writer so that readers can be convinced that global warming is a serious problem.

There is validity in the article since the writer bases the article on facts and actual figures that have been researched and documented in reliable sources. The writer is very precise in what he is writing on since the figures are actual, for instance when he writes that global emissions are expected to jump by 3% in 2011 and 2.6% in 2012, and also when he stated that there have been records of 34,008 new daily high records set at weather stations as compared to lows of 6,664 recorded by weather channel meteorologist. These are not figures that one can state without serious research being done and hence make the article valid in terms of facts that the writer has put down.

The writer also portrays a logical approach to the facts displayed throughout the article. The ideas that the writer tries to put forward are logically developed from one seemingly minor argument towards the major ones, from the seemingly simple ideas to grasp, towards complex ideas that engage interaction with figures. The writer begins with a mild introduction of global warming as a serious problem and goes ahead to state what causes global warming. He then goes further to elaborate the measures taken to deal with the issue by developed countries and tries to explain why it is a challenge to deal with global warming in developing countries as compared to their counterparts in developed countries. All these ideas are properly put forward and they are developed in a logical way such that any person reading the article will be convinced on the issue of global warming (Kemerling, 2011).

Further on within the article the writer gives a background on global warming which is done in a logical manner starting from human influence, emissions, as well as factors that are not in regard of human activity. Thereafter there is a categorical explanation of the steps that have been taken to find a solution to the problem of global warming.

Humans are a powerful influence on climate, and hence it can be deduced that they can be associated with global warming. With the rise in emissions and green house gases a deduction can be made that they play a big role in the continued increase in global warming. There are other climate changes that are not due to human influence they include long ocean cycles that have also been attributed to global warming. From an inductive point-of-view the writer portrays all this factors to be the causes of global warming are clearly explained in the background (Crossman, 2011).