Fishing is a great way to bond with your family and a fun activity to do late at night. Other reasons why people fish is because it’s their hobby and love the calm environment that it provides. In addition, fishing is also an activity to do in order to survive. All around the world, fishing companies are going out to sea and catching various types and sizes of fishes to bring food resources onto land to sell to communities around them. Certainly, there are reasons why people love to fish and eat this protein. But because of humans using seafood as a resource to survive every day for the last 42,000 years, it is causing a human climate change. Climate change is affecting the ocean since it is consuming the excess heat from greenhouse gas emissions. Whereas, human climate change is causing the fish population to declinemorerapidly because we are overfishing in water areas that are much warmer and with the lack of monitoring fishing. Despite being under these circumstances, for the fish population and us, in order to prevent fish population to decline even more, our world needs to preserve the environment. In order to preserve the environment, we should regulate overfishing because it will increase fish population, help the environment, and benefit humans.

Improve fish populations

Fishing laws and regulations are only to benefit fish population and others that are fishing. If the whole world continues to prevent the declining amounts of fish population, it can benefit other sea life and us. The circle of life is what helps keep living things, alive. If fishes were to go extinct, then so will seals, therefore leading to polar bears to go extinct and so forth. Just by regulating how much fishers can bring home, can help wild life have food and others that are fishing for food. Depending on the area you fish in, there are laws and regulations. According to California and Department of Fish and Wildlife for San Francisco Bay Marine Protected Areas, in the county of San Mateo it states, “It is unlawful to injure, damage, take, or possess any living or non-living marine resource for commercial purposes.” Having this rule in the county of San Mateo will help protect species that are currently living there. An article written by Kendra Pierre Louis, a reporter on the climate team for NYTimes, The World Is Losing Fish to Eat as Seas Warmstated,

Warm areas fared even worse when they were overfished. The researchers suggested that overfishing made fish even more vulnerable to temperature changes by hurting their ability to reproduce and damaging the ecosystem. (3)

Where there is warmer sea temperature, most likely there are little to no fish left. And yet, fishing companies continue to overfish in that area making it harder for other fishers and species look for food. If we stop fishing companies from this, there is a chance for fish to reproduce and also help the ecosystem. Not only that, but studies have shown that in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Sea of Japan, fish have declined by over 35%. Within that area, they solely rely on seafood as their food resource, if it continues to decline more than 35% what else can they eat? On the other hand, they could find another food to replace this protein, but would they? Furthermore, continuing to make these regulations and laws to be stricter it will be beneficial for all sea life which will continue to help maintain their environment and increase our chances on living on this Earth longer.

Lessen Bycatch

Even though big corporations are becoming more environmentally friendly, it is still not enough to make this a low carbon world. (Akshat Rathi, The environment is reeling — but people care about the Earth more than ever, qz.com). Did you know that our first ever Earth day was in April 1920? That was 99 years ago, and we still are annually celebrating Earth day. Despite how long we have been celebrating, we haven’t gotten far in preventing climate change from occurring more rapidly. There is no doubt that the excess heat from the greenhouse gases are causing detrimental consequences to the environment. And because there are still oil and gas companies that are present to this day, it is causing climate change to be even more real than it was in the 20’s. Making effective fishing regulations helps the environment because it will help fish population. Not only this, but it helps other ocean animals since fish are a part of their diet as well. Besides fishing companies from overfishing they are catching unintended species which is bycatch. According to Elian Peltier, a writer for the NYTimes since 2015, reported,

the crew of the fishing trawler L’Arlequin II pulled their cone-shaped net up from the Bay of Biscay, and found the usual catch crammed into the bottom: hundreds of bass.

And the bodies of two dead dolphins (1).

In other words, catching in areas that declined in fish population can result in bycatch; which is not a good thing. Catching unintended species brings more harm than good because for starters, the species other than fish were not intended to be caught. They only got caught because the species were looking for food therefore, bringing death to the species that were accidentally caught. Later in Mr. Peltier’s article, Willy Dabin, who observer’s dolphin stranding for the observatory stated, “Because the common dolphin is a protected species, fishermen cannot bring the bodies ashore, so they throw the carcasses into the sea and most bycatch remains unseen.” This leads to the ocean’s environment become more fatal since there are already warm sea temperatures, humans are adding more damage. With the remains of the bycatch being unseen, how much have fishers caught unintended species and thrown their dead bodies back into the ocean? Is it not unlawful to throw dead protected species back into the ocean? Bringing this into the public eye should be seen as unlawful since we are harming the food chain and also the eco system.

Beneficial Needs Humans Receive from Fish

Fish has been known to be beneficial for humans — hence why fish is a source of food for us. According to the United Nation Food and Agriculture organization, “Fish and seafood make up 17 percent of the animal protein consumed worldwide and as much as 70 percent for people living in some coastal and island countries.” Fish is an impactful source of protein around the globe, and yet we are making it scarcer by overfishing leading it to make a negative impact on the ecosystem and the ability for fish to reproduce. According to EDF Seafood Selector’s article, The Benefits of Eating Fish stated, “Since the human body can’t make significant amounts of these essential nutrients, fish are an important part of the diet.” In other words, fish plays an important part in our diet since we are unable to produce a significant portion of omega 3 fatty acids, which are good for the human body, we consume these “good fats” to make up for it. Since humans around the globe, especially in East Asia, rely on seafood as protein in their diet, we need to make sure to have an order that can be adaptive to climate change. Which means, “fishery managers need to come up with new innovative ways of account for those shifts. That includes reducing catch limits in warm negative areas, but it can also include increasing catch limits in cooler positive years.” Dr. Free said in his research. Fish continues to be a great health benefit for humans, and its super delicious too! Now, if we lose them how else are we going to regulate our blood clots and vessel constriction in our cardiovascular system?

What About Me?

Now you may ask yourself if you are a pescatarian, a person that doesn’t eat meat but does eat fish, what can my diet consist of if we regulate fishing? You can still continue to eat fish as much as you’d like. On the other hand, fishing managers and companies need to regulate how much they are fishing in warmer areas versus cooler temperature. If they don’t, then you will not have any protein left to eat other than meat. Not saying you should advocate for overfishing regulations… but you should. If we maintain how much these companies are fishing in areas, it can lead to increasing the seas population therefore not making fish harder to catch or reproduce, even better by not making it a problem for the future. You may also ask yourself; do we not already have fishing regulations? And to that answer yes we do. But are these laws also maintaining bycatch? There are unintended species being caught, dead, in fishers’ nets and thrown back into sea for the public not to know and/or even notice. Don’t just think about the effects for your life, but also other life on this globe too.

Conclusion

Overall, fishing companies need a more resourceful way to engage in becoming environmentally friendly to our fishes and other sea life. The ocean is already struggling as it is since the warmer sea temperatures are affecting sea life, we do not need to add more to climate change affecting the ocean. All in all, the globe needs to find ways that can be beneficial for sea life and our life because most species on Earth rely on fish to have in our diet in order to survive. If you are a pescatarian, by all means continue to eat your fish, but also be an advocate to make stricter regulations for fish companies since that is only your source of meat in your diet. If by chance you stumbled upon this, help preserve the environment to make it better and livable for all life on Earth by enforcing these laws and continue your research about this growing problem in the fish industry.

Works Cited

“Ocean Warming.” IUCN, 5 Dec. 2018, www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/ocean-warming.

Peltier, Elian, and Andrea Mantovani. “On a Coastline With 1,200 Dead Dolphins, Fishermen and Conservationists Clash.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 May 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/world/europe/france-dolphins-fishing.html.

Pierre-louis, Kendra. “The World Is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 28 Feb. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/climate/fish-climate-change.html.

Rathi, Akshat, and Akshat Rathi. “The Environment Is Reeling-but People Care about the Earth More than Ever.” Quartz, Quartz, 9 July 2018, qz.com/1257841/the-environment-is-reeling-but-people-care-about-the-earth-more-than-ever/.

“Report Highlights Growing Role of Fish in Feeding the World.” FAO,www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/231522/icode/.

staff, Science X. “Gone Fishing? We Have for 42,000 Years.” Phys.org, Phys.org, 25 Nov. 2011, phys.org/news/2011–11-prehistoric-mastered-deep-sea-fishing.html.

Sumaila, U. Rashid, et al. “Benefits of the Paris Agreement to Ocean Life, Economies, and People.” Science Advances, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1 Feb. 2019, advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/2/eaau3855.

“The Benefits of Eating Fish.” Seafood Selector, 4 Apr. 2013, seafood.edf.org/benefits-eating-fish.

Considering that most people in this generation is on social media, I decided to create an online flyer to post onto my Instagram story. Usually these instagram stories are shown for approximately ~5 seconds, therefore I used colors like yellow, blue, and red to catch instagrammers attention and press left once to review my story. I made sure to make positive words bigger. Whereas, the negative words smaller and in the “no” symbol. In the background I showed a boat with fishing nets on the side to show represent them catching fish. I also added apple’s dolphin emoji to “decrease by catch” because usually fishers accidentally catch unintended species resulting in them being killed. As well as adding fishes to “increase fish population.

Understanding the structure of the course within these last few weeks, what I would do differently would be to use the Medium website to write my debatable topic instead of using word because it’ll remind me that this is not a formal way of writing an essay. Besides this, I also would further improve my writing especially my thesis since that was a common factor when receiving feedback from my professor. The nature of the hybrid course and online writing was a big change and challenge for me since my prior english courses wanted to write a formal paper with a hard copy turned in compared to online. Adding to that, usually we would meet twice a week and have homework assigned, but the hybrid course allowed me to experience having to meet once a week and homework assigned twice a week. What is working for me are the continuous emails reminding me that I have assignments due in the upcoming days and always keep me busy for school. If given the chance to recommend this course I would since it helped me improve my time management skills between school, work, and relationships.

Post One

What I revised in post one was through peer review, I added subheadings to my post since I wrote in an essay format. I also continued by trying to grab my audiences attention by giving statistics about how our ocean is 80% unmapped. I continued to listen to my peers feedback by making sure my sentence structure was stronger. From Professors Cox’s feedback, I made sure that my topic was not broad since I had Climate Change and Global warming in which case I chose Global Warming affecting our oceans. In addition, I incorporated more photos to my post.

Post Two

I revised post two by fixing one rhetorical device example I had used. As she had stated within class that most people mix logos and ethos together, I was one of them. I added more and gave a description of how these devices are persuading her readers. Continuing, I made my thesis more stronger as best I could! I also analyzed my quotes better which would help more on how she is persuading than what is being persuaded. I continued also by adding another photo.

Post Three

The changes I made to post three included adding more information to the author. Given that she was an editorial intern, the website didn’t provide that much information about her. In addition to my revision, I also included a thesis because my post lacked a clear concise thesis of what I would be talking about further into the post. I also made sure to proof read to rid of any mistakes or errors.

Post Four

The revisions for post four were to fix my thesis the most since it helps pave the way of what I would be saying later in the article. Besides this, I thought to change my introduction since I needed a strong hook to catch my readers attention. I made sure that my post were free of any errors. I also added the hyperlink to the video I used to write my article.

Post Five

The revisions I made to post five were proof reading and reading aloud my whole post to make sure that it was free of any errors and/or mistakes that I had previously missed. I made sure to check my thesis so it is concise and clear for reading to read and understand. In addition, I made sure I could understand my own data later when I write my argument paper so I wouldn’t have a problem with it for reference later. I was sure to include captions for the photos too for readers.

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DO YOU BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING?

Seeing 22 out of 25 of my friends and family believing global warming wasn’t a shock to me to say the least, I knew that they would! On the other hand, seeing that there were a few of which that do not believe in global warming was not a shocker either. In spite of the fact of this data, I asked a follow up question that did shock me the most. The question I asked was, are you doing anything to prevent global warming?

More than half of them are doing preventative measures to ensure that global warming is put to an end, yet there is still 24% of participants that aren’t doing anything. Knowing that some of them would say this, I asked another question if not, then why? I was given multiple responses that they don’t know any measures they can do to reduce global warming from occurring even more. It is understandable that there were multiple responses to why they aren’t doing much, it’s because they are not taught what is the causation of global warming since there are many factors contributing to this.

Despite there being responses saying they don’t know what to do, in the end of my survey I asked if its not too late to prevent global warming, would you save the Earth? Of course majority had said that they would save the earth, but going back to one of my previous questions if they believed in G.W, there were 2 votes to “no” and yet, when I asked the last question if they would save the Earth, there was only one who voted “no.” So my question is one of two participants that previously chose “no” in believing in global warming, what made them change their answer at the end to say, “yes” to save the Earth.

Conclusion

Although that most of the participants had agreed that they believe in global warming, it isn’t much of a shock to know that there are people who believe but don’t know what to do. I’m sure that all of us here are doing as much as we can to save our Earth from Global warming, but finding the solution to putting an end to it fully will be hard. But all I ask is to try.

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Have you ever wanted to see what the ocean is like, but literally not go in with snorkel gear? In the 360 video, The Crystal Reef: How Climate Change Is Affecting Our Oceans, by Time, a YouTube channel with 617k subscribers, posted on April 11, 2017 speaks how the ocean is adapting from climate change. With technology developing over time to become better, it has made reality more r e a l with just a tap on a smart device. Virtual reality has developed throughout the years and Time was able to create content that made viewers realize and see for themselves how the ocean is being affected by climate change. In the Crystal Reef the viewers met with a marine scientist Dr. Fio Micheli, a professor of Biological Science at Stanford University, to see the changes made from climate change. Viewers were able to explore the reefs off the coast of Italy to see the difference between healthy versus unhealthy reefs and learn about the ocean’s acidification. They also mention within the video about the human-produce of CO2, Carbon Dioxide, is affecting the reefs as well.

HOW OR WHY DID THIS EFFECT ME

When I first came across Time’s video on YouTube, I watched it and realized there weren’t that much views, only 61k people when I watched it compared to billions of people in this world. I started to realize that although most people in the world have smart devices, not everyone is watching videos about climate change- especially virtual reality ones. I used to think that virtual reality wouldn’t be able to educate global warming, but now I realize it can help further educate how badly global warming is affecting our oceans. How Time illustrated the video deepened my ideas about my topic because how many of your friends know the difference between a healthy or an unhealthy reef? Have they seen it for themselves? I also began to think more how virtual reality could be beneficial to educating others more about how climate change is affecting our oceans since they will see it for themselves.

Time’s video is basically like a Podcast too, you just don’t see the two or more people talking to each other or just listening to their voices; with a virtual reality video you can see more to it such as what is around and see things for yourself while hearing more about what is happening in the picture. I felt like that made me deepen my thoughts and ideas with climate change affecting the ocean because I saw the difference between the reefs. I also learned more about ocean acidification and how the CO2 that humans produce is affecting the ocean since the ocean is naturally producing CO2 as well. How the ocean produces this is by volcanic vents that are in the reefs and which makes it more acidic.

The biological science professor, Dr. Micheli, also deepened my knowledge of the ocean acidification, since most people don’t know either about it. In the Time’s video she stated, “about 30% of the carbon dioxide from human activity dissolves into the ocean… this in term makes it difficult for organism like plankton, corrals, and shell fish to grow their skeletons and shells.” Without knowing the natural acidification and the production of co2 from us going into the ocean, it shocked me! 30% going into the ocean is quite a lot to me and knowing that it makes it difficult for organisms to grow, thinking further it probably will end up affecting humans as well in the end.

HOW DO I FEEL?

Watching a 360 video about The Crystal Reef was eye opening in general for me because not many people realize with the technology advancement we have, we can see for ourselves what is happening all around the world; just as long a human has access to a 360 camera to show us! Besides, just learning more about the ocean and how climate change is affecting the ocean also is just interesting to me and I’m sure to others too!

Questions To Always Ask Yourself

Have you ever wondered what really affected the ocean through climate change? I sure have and I read an article, 5 ways climate change affects our ocean, written by Jessica Pink published on June 7, 2018 which educates her audience of 5 different ways on what harms the ocean. Throughout her article she lists and explains 5 ways the ocean is being harmed. This included rising temperature, polar ice melting, sea levels rising, warmer ocean altering the currents, and lastly the seawater chemistry. With each way climate change affects the ocean, she gives more information of what it is and how it affects wild life, the ocean, and of course us!

As I continued to read the article, it seemed legit! But was it really?

DON’T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ ON THE INTERNET

Whenever you are doing a research paper, I bet most students just find an article that LOOKS credible, but they don’t check if it really is. In other words, you can easily be given information on topics you are researching and because they sound accurate, you’d believe it, right?

I continued to research more about the author and she wrote other articles relating to the same topic such as 3 ways climate change affects the tropical rainforest. Albeit it’s not relating to the ocean, it’s still educating more about climate change. Jessica Pinks article, “5 Ways that Climate Change Affects the Ocean” is a credible source because she provides accurate information from well-known credible sources, has experience in her field of work, and works for an organization specifically for nature.

The Author

Throughout the article I was reading for my topic about global warming affecting our oceans, the author gave hyperlinks to other articles that were from good sources, yet was she herself credible? Whenever you are checking who wrote an article you’re reading, you could easily see who they are and what their profession is. As I saw in the article, she was an editorial intern for the Conservation International. Although she is not a scientist of oceanography or any of that sort, it doesn’t mean she isn’t AS credible compared to other articles out there on the internet. I wouldn’t be able to credit her as a scientist, obviously, since she is an intern for a blog website. She gives other articles from different websites which are .org and they look credible as well! Besides, didn’t your previous professors or teachers teach you to look for .org websites or did my school teach me the wrong way to look for reliable sources? (I would believe the latter if it were to be true though).

USE SOURCES WELL.

As previously mentioned, she used various articles to help support her claims. Pink’s second way that climate change affects the ocean is polar ice melting. She claimed that Antarctica is shrinking from underneath in which she got this information from a study that was given, Underwater melting of Antarctic ice far greater than thought, study findswritten by Jonathan Watts on April 2, 2018. She was crediting the information that she was given to the author instead of not listing where she got her knowledge from. As you continue to read, you can see each reason has an attached article to support the claims.

About Conservation International

Being an editorial intern, I’m sure it’s hard work. Yet, let’s look into the website that hired her in the first place: Conservation International

This website only specifically talks about nature, nothing more. I wanted to know more about where Ms. Pink works at, so I dug deeper into the tab About Us. Scrolling down to read more about them I learned that they have been in business for 30 years to “protect nature for the benefit of all”

They also aren’t from a specific place on the globe, but their workers vary from different parts of the world. Conservation International states,

We employ nearly 1,000 people and work with more than 2,000 partners in 30 countries. Over the years, we have helped support 1,200 protected areas and interventions across 77 countries, protecting more than 601 million hectares of land, marine and coastal areas.​ (1).

This shows that they have eyes in various countries that can bring up issues within their page. They also stated they have helped and support many land, marine, and coastal areas. I don’t know about you, but I think they’re pretty credible too.

Personally, I believe Pink is a credible source and the business that hired her as an intern is also reliable.

Work Cited

Pink, Jessica. “5 Ways That Climate Change Affects the Ocean — Human Nature -…” Human

Nature — Conservation International Blog, 7 June 2018,

blog.conservation.org/2018/06/5-ways-that-climate-change-affects-the-ocean/.

Sounds… fishy…

When you watched Finding Nemo in 2003, when Nemo acted dead and they flushed him down when he was actually alive, weren’t you hyped up to know he’s going to find his father? Did I spoil? My mistake, but I could relate too, yet not this instance. In the article, The World Is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds, written by Kendra Pierre — Louis published on 28 February 2019 speaks about the growing issue about oceans warming due to climate change and the harming effects on our fish. She talks about the growing issue of fishes’ immigration to different areas in the sea to fit to their liking which leaves countries overfishing which harms them to reproduce and affects the eco system. There is a growing issue that is affecting marine animals with the increase of the sea temperature and fish are just one of many marine species being affected. There various ways to support your thesis using rhetorical analysis. Within the article, Pierre-Louis came to conclusion that climate change is already making an impact on seafood.

Fishy You There?

Ironically, I don’t prefer to eat seafood on a regular basis or like… ever, but we care for the fishies’ on this blog! The World is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds, article from NYTIMES.com speaks about the growing issue about climate change, more specifically about how it is already making a HUGE and SERIOUS impact on our seafood and ocean life. Ms. Pierre-Louis uses various rhetorical devices to persuade her readers that climate change is making a big impact on our seafood. How she demonstrates this effectively is by using credible resources from studies to support her thesis. She also begins to use history and statistical facts of where the fishes were known to be before they migrated to a different region for their preferred sea temperature. These examples affects readers since she tells us how and why these fishes migrate in the first place.

Pierre-Louis continues to use logos to show the logical appeal that humans are the main source of climate change by using emotional appeal to support her claim. New York Times article, The World is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds, she stated,

Warm areas fared even worse when they were overfished. The researchers suggested that overfishing made fish even more vulnerable to temperature changes by hurting their ability to reproduce and damaging the ecosystem. (1)

In other words, due to over fishing in warm ocean water regions, it continued to worsen fishes environment to reproduce and affect the ecosystem. She uses emotional appeal to her audience to try make readers realize that we are only doing more damage, not making it better for the environment. It becomes more realistic for the readers in a way because not many would understand that over fishing is another contribution to climate change until you tell them what they are doing. You would tell your child that stealing is bad so they knew to not do it at all, it’s the same concept. The statements and/or words she chose such as, “damaging the ecosystem” and “hurting their ability to reproduce,” describes how badly the warm sea temperatures leaves a resonating effect on readers since most would reflect and question how badly this is occurring.

Albeit that most writers that try to be persuasive upon a topic, they have the credentials and experience to fully understand the topic and educate more to others; Kendra Pierre — Louis is a reporter for the NYTIMES.com with experience @popsci and MIT graduate program in science and writing. Prior to joining New York Times in 2017, she did covers for science and environment. In other words, she may not be a scientist herself within climate and environments, but she has done previous reports about them which makes her credible source. Furthering, making her material persuasive since she knows so much about the topic and has experience

The effects of rhetorical device is always significant when it comes to being persuasive and that’s exactly what Kendra Perrie-Louis did, THAT! She proceeds to use many rhetorical devices throughout her article in order to persuade readers or to educate others about how climate change is affecting our marine life and fishes are just one of many being affected.

Work Cited

Pierre-louis, Kendra. “The World Is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds.” The New

York Times,The New York Times, 28 Feb. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/climate/fish-climate-change.html.

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Global Warming Affects

More than eighty percent of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored (NOAA). Isn’t that crazy? There could be different species that are unknown to us that could be there, and we do not know of them yet! There was an article on NYTIMES.comthat stood out to me the most, As Seas Warm, Galápagos Islands Face a Giant Evolutionary Test written by Nicholas Casey and Josh Haner speaks about climate changes that are affecting animals along the Galápagos Islands because of their food sources decreasing. Most of these animals find their food source within the water and with the rise of temperature in the sea, most of the animals starve. One of the animals that were starving or died, were the marine Iguanas. Haner and Casey also said that these are the only Iguanas that search for food within the water and while the rise of the sea temperature increased, their Iguana population decreased because of starvation or they shrunk their skeletons in order for them to survive. Other animals such as seabirds began to not lay their eggs. Both authors state the reason they are starving is because of them being near three destructive weathers conditions which affects nutrients coming on shore especially of El Niño with its rapid and warm sea temperature. In the article, As Seas Warm, Galapagos Islands Face a Giant Evolutionary Test, Nicholas Casey and Josh Haner states,

Research published in 2014 by more than a dozen climate scientists warned that rising ocean temperatures were making El Niño both more frequent and more intense. Unesco, the United Nations educational and cultural agency, now warns the Galápagos Islandsare one of the places most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. (1)

In short, due to climate change becoming more prominent with its effects, the Galápagos island is more vulnerable to it along with the animals that are native there. Their research article was published in 2014 and since it is already 2019, the effects of climate change should have worsened since then because this was warned by more than a dozen of climate scientist. The rising temperature affected the native animals there because El Niño became more frequent since it doesn’t allow food sources to wash onto shore. It was interesting because of the various animals being affected in Galápagos Island and not many people are talking about them. All in all, I found it interesting in the article of how the animals were affected by these conditions and learning more.

To Believe or Not to Believe?

It’s crazy to know that there are people in the world who genuinely believe that global warming is not real. The article from NYTIMES.com written by Jim Rutenburg, News Networks Fall Short on Climate Story as Dolphins Die on the Beach, the article talks about how there are non-believers of global warming, even Trump’s administration, although there were Dolphins washing onto shore. This article was appealing for the most part because it brings attention to the opposite audience; non-believers of climate change/global warming. Not only that, but also their explanations of how these non-believers think and what they say as a contradictory statement. In the article it also talks about Trumps administration and their doubts about global warming in which case, others are believing his statements too since they were his voters. Yet, their arguments are not credible unlike the scientists who have studied Marine biology for quite some time. There were not many broadcasted news reports about the dolphins washing onto shore in Florida, but there were a few and they only discredited the findings.

What to Believe?

There are two different targeted audiences when it comes to global warming. There are believers who are trying to make a change while there are non-believers who are only making things worse for all life on Earth. There are many inventions being made in order for life on earth to survive since our climates are becoming worse as time passes by. Recently there was a law that was passed in order for sea turtles to flourish since straws were becoming a problem because it gets into the ocean and they eat it thinking it is food. Maybe the audience that do not believe in climate change is not caused by us, but by other aspects and we should just mind our own business. Yet, who are we to believe?

Ms. Gill found the first dead bottlenose dolphin of that day, wrote “This is not normal” in the sand below it and shared the image on Facebook Live.CreditCreditColleen Gill

Above is an image from the NYTIMES.com article, News Networks Fall Short on Climate Story as Dolphins Die on the Beach.

Works Cited

Casey, Nicholas, and Josh Haner. “As Seas Warm, Galápagos Islands Face a Giant Evolutionary

Test.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 19 Dec. 2018, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/18/climate/galapagos-islands-ocean-warming.html.

Rutenberg, Jim. “News Networks Fall Short on Climate Story as Dolphins Die on the

Beach.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 3 Dec. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/business/media/climate-change-news-media-red-tide-florida.html.

US Department of Commerce, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “How

Much of the Ocean Have We Explored?” NOAA’s National Ocean Service, 1 Jan. 2009, oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html.

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