What Is Gore's Ethos In Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

In Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech he talks about how global warming is getting worse and worse by the day. He shows how fast climate change is happening by telling the audience how soon the polar ice cap could melt. He also encourages the audience to help stop climate change when he tells the audience that “we will act.” In order to develop his claim that climate change is getting worse, Gore creates ethos, logos, and pathos

In order to show the audience that he is qualified for his Nobel Peace Prize, Gore heavily relies on ethos. When Gore accepted this award he had already been an environmentalist for over thirty years, as well as founding the climate reality project. Gore had been working on climate change for over half his life as well as founding a climate change project shows that he has been working extensively and is certified to give a speech regarding climate change, developing ethos. In the fourth paragraph Gore says “my, teacher Roger Revelle [...] began to precisely document the increasing CO2 levels day by day.” This anecdote about his teacher shows that in addition to being a well established environmentalist his teachers were are environmentalist who are still doing research. Gore being

In addition to developing logos the rhetorical fragment “Seven years from now” also developed pathos. Knowing how fast the polar icecaps are melting will provoke worry from the audience. It being a rhetorical fragment emphasized how fast global warming is happening. At the end of Gore’s speech he uses an anaphora in his call to action when he says “we will rise, and we will act” this Anaphora helps provoke a feeling action and urgency in the audience helping develop pathos. Without pathos the audience would not feel the need to do anything about climate