How would I write a sociology paper on the claim of global warming?

Question

I am not sure how to even write a paper anymore,I have been out of school for 15 years ahhhh and I am not really understanding sociology. Please if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated :)

Answer 1

You are obviously not bright enuf to research on your own the writing of "papers." And "understanding sociology" is not some capsule you can take or weed you can smoke...takes work....another dumb question from a very dumb person.

Answer 2

Is it a scientific paper? If so, you're in trouble. If it's a politics essay or something, then you're in luck. You can cherry pick data points to your heart's content: eg 1998 is still the warmest year on record, despite CO2 increasing since then. Point out that some evidence suggests Mars is warming and say that shows it must be the Sun. Say it's all a liberal or scientific conspiracy perpetrated by socialists/liberals/the UN/the Illuminati/the Club of Rome. Whilst you're at it, point out Al Gore's lavish energy use and say how he's earning money. Use a 40-year old graph or some anecdotes about how the Romans grew grapes in Britain and the Vikings colonised Greenland and say it was warmer in the middle ages. Look up some conservative think-tanks or oil industry funded front groups like the Heartland Institute or Friends of Science. Or watch 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' on YouTube. Point out how East Antarctic ice is growing. Say that scientists projected an ice age in the 1970s. All of those arguments will be ripped apart by anyone who knows what they're talking about. They're all flawed in some way, but they're pretty convincing to an amateur. EDIT: And remember you'll be relying on deception and misinformation to build a very compelling case. Take jk for example: Christopher Monckton hasn't won a Nobel prize, I've no idea why anyone thinks he would. The guy isn't even a scientist and he publishes his 'scientific' 'work' in places like the Daily Telegraph.

Answer 3

Sociology is basically studying people backwards. You go from the social institutions (gov't, work, etc) and you speak about how those affect people. Writing a Sociology paper about global warming seems quite a task. I think the best approach is the political one. How the politics of global warming are affecting people i.e. buying hummers, reliance on oil, information people get and don't get, etc.

Another, but more complicated, approach would be as to how these weather changes have been affecting people, as in how many deaths happen because of excesive heat, how there is a bigger reliance on AC, how working conditions are affected, but overall this is a hard paper to write.

I personally do not believe in Global Warming. This is as stupid as the new ice age crap that they had a few years back. The hottest recorded day in our history is almost 100 years ago, so I don't see how you can justify that exists. Besides, any respectable scientist will tell you that global warming isn't anything more than speculation. All the geography, geology, and oceanography professors I had in college denied it, and all of them were Stanford Ph.D's. Only people I see claiming global warming are the social science teachers in sociology, political science, and other similar fields that usually have an agenda hidden without proper knowledge on the subject.

Answer 4

You could start with your use of the word "claim" - why is it that some groups think it's a claim while others think it's decided upon fact, what are the differences in those groups. You would find that the scientific evidence is pretty overwhelming and those that say "claim" like it's in doubt are conservatives and those that don't are more liberal. Why is that? This is a case I really don't understand. I don't get a lot of conservative logic but in this case, the evidence is huge in opposition to their point of view even more so than evolution, but yet they insist it's a "Claim" by fear-mongering liberals.

Answer 5

dont listen to slewpy D.... if he is on the net picking on people then aparently he has no life... ok i think global warming is a great topic since there is a lot of debate about it. and when writing just remember to have your opening paragraph, 3 - 5 supporting paragraphs and a nice closing paragraph. thats just for a basic essay paper. anymore ?s just write me and i will be more than happy to help you out.

Answer 6

I'm going to tell you this: I believe the earth is warming up, but I have evidence that its not greenhouse gases.

To put it short: we are in an ice age interval, whats after (i forgot the name, lets call it heat age) is much warmer. I believe we are warming up for the "heat age".

Thank you for letting put that out there. maybe you can add that in somehow

Answer 7

It might be interesting to approach it as an investigation as to why people are so adamantly opposed to its possibility; and why that resistance to global warming "claims" tends to go along political party lines.

Answer 8

a paper is a long and involved task. you have to take it step by step... research, plan the paper out, and write a little at a time.