English 145 Readings and References

Rhetoric

from Aristotles Rhetoric
Writing Arguments: UMUC
Thomson Learning - InfoTrac College Edition - InfoWrite
critical thinking - InfoTrac College Edition - InfoWrite
rhetoric :: Scope and organization of argumentation -- Encyclopaedia Britannica
Catalyst:writing textbook
Essays and Arguments(Johnston): Table of Contents
critical thinking; InfoWrite
The Toulmin Model of Argumentation
The Toulmin Model
A long rant about facts, persuasion, and global warming | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
How to talk to a climate sceptic

 

Neutral on Gore and Climate change

On winning environmental arguments | By Umbra Fisk | Grist | Ask Umbra | 09 May 2005
ExxonMobil’s response to publication of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report of Climate Science
An Inconvenient Truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Global warming controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Key players react to the IPCC global warming report | csmonitor.com
White House on IPCC
Reason Magazine - Global Warming -- Not Worse Than We Thought, But Bad Enough
Al Gore’s Outsourcing Solution - New York Times
Game Over on Global Warming?
World breaks temperature records | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

Pro-Gore

HuffPo's Melinda Henneberger: Gore Sells Out Idaho's 10,000 Seat Taco Bell Arena "Faster Than Elton John"... | The Huffington Post
Think Progress » Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore
Think Progress » ExxonMobil Stops Funding Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Blog | David Roberts: Why the IPCC Bomb Was a Dud | The Huffington Post
Saving the Planet With Pestilent Statistics - Center for Media and Democracy
Internet Bunk The Junk Science Page
The denial industry | Climate change | Guardian Unlimited Environment
Steven Milloy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LiveScience.com - Key Argument for Global Warming Critics Evaporates
Key players react to the IPCC global warming report | csmonitor.com
The 2007 Global Warming Globie Awards - Environmental Defense
Top News- Tycoon Offers $25 Million Climate Prize - AOL News
Ellen Goodman No change in political climate - The Boston Globe
Thomas Friedman A Warning From The Garden - Free Preview - The New York Times
RealClimate » The IPCC Fourth Assessment SPM Le Quatrième Rapport d’Evaluation du GIEC - Résumé à l’intention des décideurs
Climate Change Front and Center at World Economic Forum
Reason Magazine - Confessions of an Alleged ExxonMobil Whore
Panel Says Humans ‘Very Likely’ Cause of Global Warming - New York Times
Bill McKibben | How Close to Catastrophe?
Acts of God? -- Kennedy 311 (5759): 303 -- Science
Global Warming- Science - The New York Times
The Blog | David Roberts: Debunking the NYT's Sloppy Hit Piece on Gore | The Huffington Post

Anti-Gore

"AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH" Movie Review by Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
Ezra Klein: An Inconvenient Truth Marches on
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Federal Way schools restrict Gore film
Understanding Climate Change: The Natural Resources Stewardship Project reconsiders the Kyoto Protocol (Kyoto Accord) and Canada's environmental policy.
Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe
JunkScience.com -- The Real Inconvenient Truth: Greenhouse, global warming and some facts
GLOBAL WARMING--REstored church of God
FOXNews.com - The Greenhouse Myth - Blog | Blogs | Popular Blogs | Video Blogs
YouTube - Global Warming Myth Lecture CTH Stink Test
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Think Progress » Rep. Rohrabacher: Global Warming May Have Been Caused By ‘Dinosaur Flatulence’
"green" attack on gore and movie
Inconvenient Skeptics
Global Warming Facts
sceptics guide to AIT
Inhofe: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
letter to WAPO from Ebell CEI
Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth
Reason Magazine - An Inconvenient Truth
Global warming? I won't be losing any sleep over it | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
MercuryNews.com | 03/05/2007 | Scientific `consensus' on global warming doesn't exist
From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype - New York Times

Paired Pro-Con pieces

JunkScience.com -- The Real Inconvenient Truth: Greenhouse, global warming and some facts
Internet Bunk The Junk Science Page
over 400 skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal,supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical literature

From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype - New York Times Some scientists argue that a number of central points in Al Gore's film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” are exaggerated and erroneous.
Joe Brewer | When Climate Message Is Strong, Attack the Messenger!
The Blog | David Roberts: Debunking the NYT's Sloppy Hit Piece on Gore | The Huffington Post

sceptics guide to AIT
How to talk to a climate sceptic

Challenges to both left and right on Global Warming
Centrist Dog Food
Chatting with Revkin

Wikipedia

Wired 13.03: wikipedia
Wikipedia: The New Yorker : fact : content
Wikipedia on Wikipedia
Wikipedia's cautions
The Chronicle of Higher Education on Wikipedia (Weekly newspaper of Academics)