Write a Critical Analysis paper on the Climate Change.

Homework:

Write a Critical Analysis paper on the Climate Change.

The paper should analyze available research results and scientific discussions, take a position on the subject matter and describe its importance to the Sustainable Energy Systems course.

A position that supports or dissents is equally acceptable.

Paper should be checked for grammatical and spelling errors.

Paper should address the following questions with related citations (please do not rely on popular-press/non-technical types of material for your citations).

– What is global warming? Is this term different from the other commonly used term climate change?

– What are the primary causes and mechanisms behind the scientific

community statements that say there is climate change?

• –  Are there competing theories from scientific community that

  explain the changes?

• –  WHA T IS YOUR CONCLUSION ON CLIMA TE CHANGE

  AND HOW DID YOU ARRIVE AT THESE CONCLUSIONS?

• –  What is Kyoto Protocol? When was the first Kyoto Protocol signed? What is the most recent Paris Accord? Please explain the

  primary measures and metrics of the most Paris Accord.

• –  What are the pros and cons of adopting the Paris Accord in the

  U.S.? Paper details:

• –  11point font, single-spaced, with 1inch margins. No more than 6pt spacing between paragraphs. No additional lines between section/sub-section headings. Figures/pictures/graphs, etc. should be reasonably sized so that they are legible, but not so large that they begin to count against the page count.
• –  Total page count of 5 not including Title Page, Table of Contents, Bibliography, Tables, Charts, Graphs and Figures.
• –  This is an individual report, so no group reports are permitted.
• –  The videos shown in class will be not be allowed (by themselves) as references. If anything from the videos is discussed, you need

  to find an alternate reference as a source.

• –  All critical arguments will need to be sourced. No more than a third

  of references can be from “popular sources,” such as newspapers or popular magazines. Others will need to be technical/scientific references.

• –  References will need to be standard MLA format. Grading Scheme:

• –  75% of your grade will be assigned to whether and how you answer the questions that you need to address (see list above).
• –  10% of your grade will be assigned to spelling, grammar and the use of English language.
• –  15% of your grade will be assigned to your citations. They should be relevant and complete.