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GLOBAL WARMING
BUILDING KNOWLEDGE OF THE FIELD
1. Read following text carefully
Three Quarters Believe Global Warming A Natural Occurrence
Tuesday, 26th June 2007, 08:27
ALMOST three quarters of people believe global warming is a natural occurrence and not a result of carbon emissions, a survey claimed today. This goes
against the views of the vast majority of scientists who believe the rise in the earths temperatures is due to pollution. The online study which polled nearly 4000 votes
found that a staggering 71 percent of people think that the rise in air temperature happens naturally. And 65 percent think that scientists catastrophic predictions if
pollution isnt curbed are far fetched. Emma Hardcastle, publisher at Pocket Issue which carried
out the research, said: If 71 of people feel that Man has nothing to do with the recent change in our climate then those same people
are not going to buy into any movement to reduce their carbon footprint. We need to make it clear that there is nothing natural
about the significant rise in both carbon emissions and global temperatures since the industrial revolution.”
Pocket Issue’s brief is to help people to understand the facts, encouraging them to click through to a carbon counter as a result.
Pocket Issue feels that the poll highlights the need for government and influential bodies to concentrate on getting the public to understand the facts about
global warming and ‘why’ rather than ‘how’ they should reduce their carbon footprint.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which represents most scientists, stated earlier that the increase in global temperatures is very likely due
to the observed increase of man-made greenhouse gas concentrations. They define very likely as more than 90 percent certain.
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Purpose
to explain the processes involved in the information and working of natural or sociocultural phenomena.
Text Structure General statement
: stating the reader’s position. Explanation
: explaining a sequenced explanation of why or how something occurs.
Closing : concluding the explanation.
Significant Grammatical Features ☺ Focus on generic, non-human participants.
☺ Use general and abstract nouns. ☺ Use action verbs.
☺ Use simple present tense.
2. Complete the following Generic Structure of “Three Quarters Believe Global Warming A Natural Occurrence”
Title General
Statements
Explanation
Closing
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