Al Gore: Climate of Denial

Mina Wanies
February 24, 2013
English 1302
Professor Lourence

Al Gore: Climate of Denial

Al Gore writes “Climate of Denial" start with introducing the article with a question “is it real?”(Gore 1) what Gore means by that he talks about wrestling, is it an act or is it a real thing? He goes into some great detail about wrestling and asks himself a question, is wrestling fake or real by analyzing every move that a wrestler do during a match. With Gore opening up the article with wrestling, Gore use it as a metaphor through the article asking the same question but not on wrestling but this time on global warming. By using wrestling as a metaphor now the focus is on the real question that Gore had is global warming true or fake. In the article, Gore makes many good points trying to get across the topic of global warming might be a bigger issue than most American think it is now of days. The main question Gore asks himself is global warming real or fake. Gore use wrestling as a metaphor throughout the article. Gore talks about the media on page 2 he act as if the media is a wrestling match against global warming. “Admittedly, the contest over global warming is a challenge for the referee because it’s a tag-term match, a real free-for-all. In one corner of the ring are Science and the Reason. In the other corner: Poisonous Polluters and Right-wing Ideologues.” (Gore 2). The way Gore talk about global warming is that in wrestling you have two people in the ring at all time you have your side where everyone likes and the other side that all or most no one likes. But the issue is that the free- for-all as the side where everyone likes and the science and reason as the bad side where no one likes. However Gore wants it to be the opposite way around to get people to really take global warming seriously.
Gore is trying to appeal to a much younger audience than older. Gore appeal to the audience emotions with ethos, pathos, and logos. Gore use ethos to ethical appeal the audience sense most people have a tendency to believe people whom we respect more over than people we do not respect. When Texas fast one of the worst drought “This spring the majority of the counties in Texas were on fire, and Gov. Rick Perry requested a major disaster declaration for all but two of the state’s 254 counties.” (Gore 3). With someone that people respect they well do as they say. With Gore talking about this issue it help makes an atmosphere in his writing to get people to respect him and his article. Also Gore use pathos by appealing to a younger generation of audience with emotion by saying global warming is our fault. How is global warming man-made Hansen and Trenberth said that “the record droughts, fires, floods and mudslides continue to increase in severity and frequency.”(Gore 4) With this point it shows that the younger audience needs to pay much closer attention in what is going on in the world today about global warming. Lastly Gore use logos to appeal to the audience emotion by using logic by explain what will happen if we do not take global warming seriously and take action on it to help out. For an example “The emergence of the climate crisis seems sudden only because of a relatively recent discontinuity in the relationship between human civilization and the planet’s ecological system….. global population while relying on the burning of carbon-based fuels-coal, oil and gas- for 85 percent of the world’s energy.” (Gore 8). Gore used this to show that the logic is that 85 percent of energy is coming from stuff that’s harmful to the environment and that is causing global warming while the world only care about today and not tomorrow. Gore gives this article a title called “Climate of Denial” the tittle fits the article very well. Since Gore throughout out the entire article discusses about global warming and how it is affecting us and what the issue is and what is causing all of this to become or to even to be called global warming. The word climate has to deal with weather, temperature and environment. As well the world global warming means the same as climate. Therefore by adding climate to the tittle it helps with the audience to understand and get into the mindset that this article, about the weather, temperature and environment also with the possible of global warming as well. Therefore Gore picks a good title to call his article and it helps with what he talks about and it helps the audience out before they even read it. The article that Gore wrote is not only to inform audience also it was there to persuade the audience as well. The reason why it could be both and not only one or the other is that, throughout the article Gore goes in great details explaining and telling his audience about global warming. As well as what is global warming is and what may cause it and how can we help to stop global warming from happing. Also it wants to encourage the audience to go out and do as Gore say to help the environment prevent from global warming from happing to use and save the environment. With this being said this article that gore wrote was not only inform but as well to persuade the audience to go out and help stop global warming and do not take it lightly. I agree with Gore point of view throughout his article he brings up very good points. Also Gore use wrestling as a metaphor in the entire article to help point out the big issue that everyone is skipping and not see it for them self. I feel like Gore biggest point throughout the article was to inform his audience by persuading them with informing them first of all to let everyone that this is an issue and it need to fix and not thinking it is a fake. In conclusion with everything that the article has to say it got straight to the point. It did its job like Gore plan on doing from the very being of the article. Also it made the audience to realize that this is not fake like the big question was real or fake. With Gore opening up the article with wrestling, Gore use it as a metaphor through the article asking the same question but not on wrestling but this time on global warming. Without furthermore Gore made his point very clear to his audience to understand it and to be inform and persuade all at the same time then one over the other. Also Gore appeal to his audience by using ethos, pathos and logos very well to let them know about the issue that not just American face but the entire world face sense there is only world and one global warming.

Work Cited
Gore, Al. "Al Gore: Climate of Denial." Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2013.

Cited: Gore, Al. "Al Gore: Climate of Denial." Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2013.