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还有我自己的两个提纲
45.The following appeared as an editorial in a wildlife journal.
"Arctic deer live on islands in Canada's arctic region. They search for food by moving over ice from island to island during the course of a year. Their habitat is limited to areas warm enough to sustain the plants on which they feed, and cold enough, at least some of the year, for the ice to cover the sea separating the islands, allowing the deer to travel over it. Unfortunately, according to reports from local hunters, the deer populations are declining. Since these reports coincide with recent global warming trends that have caused the sea ice to melt, we can conclude that the decline in arctic deer populations is the result of deer being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea."
北极鹿生活在加拿大极地区域的岛屿上。它们全年都通过冰块在岛屿间移动来寻找食物。它们的栖居地局限在那些温暖得足以维持它们所需的植物生长,并且在一年的至少某些时候冷到足以让岛屿间的海面结冰以使它们能够在岛屿间旅行的地方。然而,根据当地猎人的报告,鹿的数量正在下降。由于这一报告正好与最近导致海洋冰面融化的全球变暖趋势同时发生,我们可以得出结论:北极鹿数量的下降是它们无法按它们原有的迁移习惯穿越结冰海面的结果。
we can conclude that the decline in arctic deer populations is the result of deer being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea
攻击1:according to reports from local hunters, the deer populations are declining
是否真的下降了?
下降了多少?正常范围?
不能迁移是否就会导致减少
攻击2:论断的另一个前提是,气温上升会导致鹿数目下降
Since these reports coincide with recent global warming trends that have caused the sea ice to melt, we can conclude that the decline in arctic deer populations is the result of deer being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea.
时序性因果,其他原因
全球变暖,南极?
是否暖到了不能结冰?
1.没有证据表明warming trend已经导致北极鹿无法像祖先一样在冰块上迁徙
2.也没有证据显示驯鹿的数量减少和全球气候变暖有关
3.其他因素:本地猎人的报告是否准确;没有说明,如果北极鹿不能够迁徙就会死亡或者减少
TOPIC: ARGUMENT45 - The following appeared as an editorial in a wildlife journal.
"Arctic deer live on islands in Canada's arctic region. They search for food by moving over ice from island to island during the course of a year. Their habitat is limited to areas warm enough to sustain the plants on which they feed, and cold enough, at least some of the year, for the ice to cover the sea separating the islands, allowing the deer to travel over it. Unfortunately, according to reports from local hunters, the deer populations are declining. Since these reports coincide with recent global warming trends that have caused the sea ice to melt, we can conclude that the decline in arctic deer populations is the result of deer being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea."
WORDS: 511 TIME: 0:30:00 DATE: 2006-7-27
In this editorial, the editor concluded that the decline of arctic deer populations is the result the fail to across the frozen sea. To suggest his conclusion, the editor cited a report form local hunters; in addition, he also brought the melting of the see ice as a evidence. At first glance, this text may be some reasonable, but with careful analysis, we could find it suffered from several logical flaws and discussed as follows.
First and foremost, the editor cite the reports form local hunters as evidence to show that the deer populations are declining, but this point may be dubious in two aspects. Firstly, the reports mentioned no words about the number of deer before and the recent number to contrast for, and also lack of strong evidence to make us believed that the number of the deer is really declining just as bodies, tracks, wastes.
Secondly, whether the populations are declining or just because the hunters can not found them? It is possible that the hunters were just bad luck because the deer run away before the hunters could found them, or just because the whether changed into some conditions that the deer must migrated into other reigns. So without thorough researches of the deer's population we could not make any conclusions.
Another significant flaw is that the editor blame the declining to the melting of sea ice which caused by the global warming trends. This point is suffered form 3 aspects. First, the author told us the habitat of the deer must warm enough to keep plants alive for their feeding, so it may be possible that the island the deer live on is warm enough so that they need not to make migration for food. So how could the editor blame the declining to the melting if the migration is needless?
Secondly, although the melting of sea ice may be a fact that influence the population of the deer, but is there have not any other possible causes? The pollutions, human acts, or just some preys move into the deer’s habitat could also lead the declining of the population, but the editor just ignore all of them and this make his conclusion unreasonable. So without analysis of all the possible reasons that could influence the population of deer be considered, it is hard for us to make some conclusion.
Thirdly, the global warm trends are just coincidence with the so called declining which is admitted by the editor, but how could he use a coincidence to account some phenomenon without careful analysis? It is very possible that the global warm trends appeared before nowadays, but we are not inferred whether the declining have shown up when global warm trends appeared? So the editor’s assumption based on this coincidence will be an unfounded one.
All in all, with all the factors I just mentioned above, the editor failed to prove his conclusion with dubious evidences and unfounded assumptions. If he could bring more evidence and make a thorough research, it would make this argument more logical acceptable. |
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