Monday, April 5, 2010

response to review from Ms.Fong (By ZhuoMing)

As there are not so many objective proves for my inatial point of view in Topic 1. I changed to Topic 3, which is considered much easiler to choose a side: Should decision-mskers focus primarily on sulfur particles as the way to combat climate change or should they not? Of course, I chose they should not rely on this respectively new thehnology. And I found that there are a lot of arguments I can present in this topic including those in the roundtable we discussed and some other material I found from the Internet.

Some points are: we should not rely on this as there are a lot of uncertainties and it will weaken our determination to reduce the gases emission. Another reason we should not rely on it because the time is limited and we should concentrate on facing the problem from the obverse side. once this method fails, it would be too late for us to restart the reduction of emission or it would be too dangerous to try other methods again.

I think these reasons are more valid and objective. And as this is only the first draft of my essay on Topic 1. I will still modify it after the conference.

review of the draft of WA2 from Ms.Fong(by ZhuoMing)

The topic I firstly chose was topic 1, namely , discuss how much governments should rely on predictions from climate models when they are planning climate adaptation measures. So the question is how much should leaders rely on the predictions. And it is comparatively a hard topic for an argumentive essay. If we agree that decision-makers should rely primarily on the report, the opposite perspective should be that they should not rely on the predictions, vice versa. And if my statement is that the decision-makers should rely partly these, I probably need to refute both relying totally and not relying nothing at all on the predictions, As is said by Ms.Fong.

However, my point is that different countries should rely on the reports provided by now differently simply because different countries have different values, different profits and different conditions. In the argument, I said something as there are uncertain components in the reports that are provided by developed countries and developing countries may not believe in this as they do not have such advanced technology and would even consider this could become a way that developed countries restrict their economic developing, which is considered not valid and objective by Ms.Fong. After thinking again, I found that there were few argements that could proof my point if I argue in this way so I decided to change a topic.