Post 4: Carbon Dioxide Paper Evaluation

1. Post your group's presentation.

2. Reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of the criteria established. Where these good criteria, or should there have been different criteria established?

The criteria that had been established was very broad. As a result of this it made evaluating from the standpoint that the paper was valid in my opinion to be difficult.

3. Reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of the presentations as a whole. Consider the "yes" and "no" groups as a whole.

The presentations were very well done. They all followed the class set-up criteria for evaluating the paper. They all made very solid arguments as to why the paper was valid or invalid.

4. Reflect on the group management of your group. What went well, what did not?

We were well organized. Our group met outside of class to work on this presentation. However it didn’t work that we all were thinking that this paper was invalid and we had to argue that that this paper was valid.

5. Reflect on the personal "ethic" you felt in your group. Did you believe in your position? Where you arguing against your beliefs?

I did not believe in the position that I was defending. I was arguing against what I thought was correct. Like many stated a lot of things with this paper didn’t add up, ranging from the lack of creditability of the sources to the lack of research actually done by the authors themselves.

6. Did the class make the correct decision when considering the broader impacts of the global warming/climate change debate? Why?

Yes, the class in general did make the correct decision.  I believe this because there was more evidence to support that side of the argument.

7. Explain the statement, "What we do in the US, soon will not matter." Provide evidence to justify this statement.

Other countries are slowly surpassing the US. Most of the things that we do here in the US are results of outsourced jobs. An example of this would be the building of car parts.

8. Explain this statement, "What we do as individuals matters." Provide evidence to justify this statement.

What one person does can change a series of events. It is like the butterfly effect. The butterfly effect is saying that if one thing is different it changes the outcome of the future.