5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 4

5)*To the average American, the greatest threat facing the United States in the twenty-first century is probably something on the order of a new Cold War with China as the chief opponent, nuclear missiles launched by rogue nations Islamic fundamentalism, terrorists releasing appalling new biological weapons.

*The chief U.S. protagonist is certainly former Vice President Al Gore, the author of Earth in the Balance, which became the bible of environmental extremism.

*Congress is against Al Gore's opinion. In July 1997, the U.S. senate voted 95-0 for the Byrd-Hegel Resolution, which opposes any global warming mitigation scheme that would damage the U.S. economy.

*Support the Kyoto form labor is divided along white collar/blue collar lines.

*The United mine workers have already come out strongly against Kyoto because the agreement heavily penalizes coal use.

4)*What do they mean by the average American?

*What has Al Gore done besides the book he wrote?

*Why doesn't congress agree with the obvious situations?

*What is the Kyoto Form?

3)*putative: acknowledged

*Stratospheric: from the stratosphere.

*Overwhelmingly: tremendously.

2) *Personification: in the reading, the author writes a phrase that includes a personification, "Congress played a cat and mouse game" giving congress characteristics of life.

*Vocabulary words: in page number 29, the writer uses two of our class vocabulary words. Those words are used together "blatant advocacy", which come from the words blatant and advocate.
1) In Point of view number 5, the writer talks about some negatives point of view from some important groups, such as the congress who disagree with the extremist opinion of the vice President Al Gore in his book Earth in the Balance. In another way, in this part of the book another important laws are mentioned as the Kyoto Form, which apparently prohibits some acts that prejudice the global warming.