Climate Change | HTX Engelsk A | 15. december 2015

This study guide will help you focus on the topic of climate change. We will show you examples from five texts that cover the topic and focus on the most significant elements that will be relevant for a discussion about climate change. In these notes, we will focus on outlines of the sources you have to analyze and on a discussion regarding the pros and cons of climate change, as well as the future of climate change.

Exam question

This study guide is based on the written exam in English A on HTX from 15th of December, 2015:

Write an essay, report from the future, contribution to a debate or a news article in which you discuss the topic of climate change using the five sources:

I: ‘Chasing Ice’: Time-Lapse Cameras Capture Rapidly Melting Glacier (video)
II: Obama to unveil tougher climate change plan (video)
III: How technology is fighting to prevent a climate-change apocalypse (text)
IV: Climate change: How do we know? (text)
V: Selected photos from: Planned curbs in greenhouse gas emissions won't prevent global warming 'danger limit' being reached, warns report (photos)

Presentation of the topic

Climate change has always been present in our planet. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, climate change was caused by slight changes in our planet’s orbit. However, in the last two centuries, climate change has transformed because of human activity and industrialization. Today, the alarming rate at which the natural world is changing threatens to lead to a fundamental shift of the world as we know it. If no measures are taken to prevent unnatural climate change, the already-present consequences will only increase.

Further help

Do you want additional help with analysis of non-fiction? See our general guide to non-fiction analysis.