Anthology: Climate Change: The Facts. Flashcards
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Genre:
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Public Information article - free, short science course.
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Audience:
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Relatively inexpert in the field of global warming, adults and young adults, non-scientists.
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Purpose:
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- To explain global warming simply to a non-expert audience.
- To increase awareness of the issue.
- To inform people of the dangers of global warming.
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How is global warming seen as a very serious topic?
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‘Political hot potato’.
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Format in which the article is structured?
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Question then answer.
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Statistics are used?
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‘Warming in the past 100 years has caused an 0.8 degree increase.’
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How is informality used?
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‘rotting vegetarian’ and ‘farting cows’ is easily accessible to all readers.
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Alliteration:
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‘relentless rise’ shows that the rise is rapid.
