TOW #8-Global Warming

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/03/report-says-global-warming-likely-to-make-starvation-poverty-and-other-problems/

      This article is solidly based upon a "leaked draft of an international scientific report" for its information. It uses the report to illustrate the possible harmful effects of global warming upon the world. In the article, the Associated Press uses repetition, listing of facts, and numerous quotations to show people the highly possible harmful effects of global warming.
      The article uses the phrase, "the report says" many times to relate the reader back to the original source of the facts presented. This reminds the audience that the article is based on a credible source. This particular repetition, partnered with the author(s) of the text, the Associated Press, and the place of the article's publication, the Fox News website, gives the article its credibility and appeal to ethos. Repetition also makes sure that the idea that is being repeated is solidly embedded into the reader's mind, and stays with him/her as she/he reads the text. 
      In the middle of the article is a list of "certain 'key risks'" of global warming on the world. This listing of facts presents solid proof of the thesis of the article, namely that global warming will have ill effects on the entire world. Some of these effects include famine, failing infrastructures, and dangerous/deadly heat waves. The simple listing of provides readers with a clear understanding of the consequences of global warming on an easily comprehensible scale, and shows them the possible results of global warming. 
      Throughout the text are sprinkled quotes from the leaked report. These quotes represent evidence on the article's claim, and support that claim. They also show that the article is not based on the author's personal speculations, but on an actual scientific, researched report. The quotes give the article its academic tone, making the text a fact-based, intellectual work with little in the realm of an appeal to pathos, besides the feelings of worry and perhaps even alarm in readers as they survey the possible consequences of global warming.
     The article did a good job of completing its task, namely to make readers aware of the various possible outcomes of global warming. Perhaps its most effective rhetorical device it uses is the list of "'key risks'" which simplify the hazards of global warming to be easily understood and comprehended.