After reading a few essays I chose The Great Climate Experiment by Ken Caldeira. I picked this one because climate change is important to me. In my younger years I did not care about climate change because I had the attitude that it was something that would not really matter for many hundreds of years and my kids’ kids would not even be affected so why in the world should I care. I would like to think I have matured and now I know it is important to humans’ long-term survival. Yes, this issue does affect me currently because what we do today will have a long term impact on the climate in the future. This essay is not peer-reviewed because it will not come up under the APUS library when I refine my search and search for peer-reviewed articles.
I feel the claim of the essay is, “In reality, carbon dioxide dumped into the atmosphere today will affect Earth hundreds of …show more content…
Extreme downpours have become more common. In the Arctic, ice and snow cover less area, and methane-rich permafrost soils are beginning to melt. Weather is getting weirder, with storms fueled by the additional heat. (Caldeira)

The support was weak because he did not give any sources to back this up. I do not believe the author used the Toulmin method in this essay. I did not think the essay was argumentative at all. It was more of “facts” that were not backed up by any real sourced data. Furthermore, the author never really stated what he wanted people to do. He just gave information about climate change. Multiple pieces of the Toulmin method were missing. During week five, you created an argument using the Toulmin model. Have you used this style of argumentation before in your studies or career (either verbally or in past writing assignments/projects)? Will you use it in the future? Why or why