University Climate Change Assignment: Argument Analysis and Fallacies

This assignment solution addresses a climate change analysis, focusing on the legitimacy of provided arguments and the identification of logical fallacies. The student assessed several statements, determining whether they were legitimate or contained fallacies such as false equivalence or ad hominem attacks. The solution also summarized an article discussing the effects of climate change on weather patterns, droughts, and public perception. Furthermore, the assignment analyzes the use of inductive and deductive reasoning, as well as the impact of a visual element within the article. The assignment also includes a reference list with supporting sources.

Running head: CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Change
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Question 1..................................................................................................................................2
Question 2..................................................................................................................................3
Question 3..................................................................................................................................3
Question 4..................................................................................................................................4
Reference List............................................................................................................................4

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Question 1
Ans:
A.The given sentence is an illegitimate one. This is because of the fact that while the reason
sounds justified, the action would not be fit as the person would die without desert or
vegetables.
B.The given sentence is a legitimate sentence because it focuses on the magazines which are
considered to be vintage by the New Yorker.
C.The given sentence is a legitimate one because it is warning people of the politician who is
considered to be a bad person.
D.The argument made by Mister B sounds as the legitimate one as he is speaking about
controlling of drug possession in the society.
E.The argument sounds illegitimate as there are many other ways by which the boy can play
outside without needing a football.
F.The sentence is a legitimate one because it warns about the privatizing of the prison
systems.
G.The sentence is illegitimate one because celebrity endorsement does not make a product
better.
H.The sentence is illegitimate because not everybody in a bus is rude and the point made by
the narrator does not sound right.
I.The sentence is illegitimate because there is no way a rooster can make an alarm clock go
off.
J.The sentence is legitimate because whatever has been said in the sentence is true.

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Question 2
Ans: In the text provided, the writer had provided a general summary of the events which the
effects of the climatic changes that have been taking place in the world in the recent time
periods. The author speaks about how the drought had affected the fruit farms of California
which had led to the dry fruits of the season. The author also goes on to state about the
heatwaves and the other climatic problems that are affecting the Earth in the present times
(Nelson: 3274).
The author had argued about the facts presented in the essay about the climatic
change. In the essay itself, the author argues about the heatwaves and the droughts which are
affecting the fruit farms in the county itself. All these facts can be used to describe about the
various ways in which the author had argued about the climatic changes in the country itself.
Question 3
Ans: In the text itself, the author had spoken about the subject matter of how the climatic
change is going to affect the world itself. In this scenario, the author had mentioned the birds
and the butterflies to explain the inductive and the deductive reasoning to the readers himself.
The author states that the disturbance in the weather itself had affected the life of the
butterflies in the environment (Bois: 9379). In this way, the author had presented the
inductive and the deductive arguments in the essay itself.
Question 4
Ans: The photo which had been provided in the article plays a very important message in the
context of weather change itself. It is seen that the all is submerged under the water except

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the statue of Lord Shiva. This is also related to the Hindu mythology which speaks of Shiva
as the God of Destruction. Thus, the image plays an important role in the text itself (Urry:50).
Reference List
Blois, Jessica L., et al. "Space can substitute for time in predicting climate-change effects on
biodiversity." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110.23 (2013): 9374-
9379.
Nelson, Gerald C., et al. "Climate change effects on agriculture: Economic responses to
biophysical shocks." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.9 (2014):
3274-3279.
Urry, John. "Climate change and society." Why the social sciences matter. Palgrave
Macmillan, London, 2015. 45-59.