III. Question 4

In Kluger's TIME Magazine article about the effects of global warming and what should be done about them, he explains a multitude of different problems within the environment and how pollution and CO2 emissions have caused them. He describes grandiose scenarios where part of Florida is under water, or great hurricanes will pillage cities like never before. He tells us to be worried (in the title) and inserts words like 'drought', 'deluge', and cites daunting statistical figures to back up his claim.
Richard Lindzen, on the other hand, describes a world where global warming does indeed exist and CO2 is the cause. However, he says that this does not warrant the amount of alarm as it has. He says that dissenting scientists such as himself are quieted by environmentalist groups and scientists who are backed by them. He gives a couple reasons as to why some of the mainstream scientific belief that global warming will be the end of the world is extreme and does not use proper scientific data.
While I am partial to Mr. Lindzen's stance on the topic, objectively, Kluger has done a superior job of convincing me of the dangers of global warming. He cites many more sources and provides much more evidence of global warming. He convinced me that there is really a problem with our planet right now, and something must be done to save it.
Yet, perhaps these are the desired effects of these scare tactics Lindzen writes about.