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Climate Change In Tim Flannery's The Water Makers

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Flannery, Tim. The Water Makers. Toronto: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. Book. Tim Flannery, is an environmentalist, author, and global warming activist, who created his book to educate people about the history of climate change. I believe that Flannery’s book is a good reading level for me, I am able to easily read and understand the text. Flannery is very educated on the topic of climate change and gives many different subtopics in the book to explain how different species and locations are affected by climate change. For example, the book includes chapters that discuss climate change in different ways, like the melting of ice at the poles, El Niño’s, among other ones. I will be able to use many things from Flannery’s book in my essay. Reviewing the information in the book, I believe that Flannery is an accurate source with many different insights on the topic of climate change. Flannery’s book is a secondary resource. This book was published in 2005, meaning the source is not current …show more content…

and an environmentalist. Gore wrote his book to educate people on the environment and climate change. I believe this book is at a reading level too easy for me, but it includes many interesting pieces of information that could improve my essay. The book is filled with many short paragraphs, uses language that is easy to read, and includes pictures that provide excellent visual examples and help further understanding of the text. The information Gore writes is accurate because he states the same information that other environmentalists do. The book is a secondary source, and it is not a current source since it was written ten years ago. The source does cover the scope I need and covers specific subtopics. For example, the book is on climate change, but has subtopics on intensity of the weather, melting ice, among others. Yes, the source is ethical and at the end of the book gives credit to the sources

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