Environmental Science 14th Edition by Tyler Miller ,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 8

A top U.S. economic adviser to the president once gave a speech in Williamsburg, Virginia (USA), to representatives of governments from a number of countries. He told his audience not to worry about atmospheric warming because the average global temperature increases predicted by scientists were much less than the temperature increase he had experienced that day in traveling from Washington, DC, to nearby Williamsburg. What was the flaw in his reasoning Write an argument that you could use to counter his claim.