Living in the Environment 18th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 11

A top U.S. economic adviser to a president once gave a speech in Williamsburg, Virginia (USA), to representatives of governments from a number of countries. He told his audience not to worry about atmospheric warming because the average global temperature increases predicted by scientists were much less than the temperature increase he had experienced that day in traveling from Washington, DC, to nearby Williamsburg. What was the flaw in his reasoning Write an argument that you could use to counter his claim.