Arctic deer live on islands in Canada's arctic regions. They search for food by moving over ice from island to island during the course of the year. Their habitat is limited to areas warm enough to sustain the plants on which they feed and cold enough, at least some of the year, for the ice to cover the sea separating the islands, allowing the deer to travel over it. Unfortunately, according to reports from local hunters, the deer populations are declining. Since these reports coincide with recent global warming trends that have caused the sea ice to melt, we can conclude that the purported decline in deer populations is the result of the deer's being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author's argument that global warming is preventing the Arctic deer from following their age old migration pattern and this lack of migration is causing the decrease in their population, may seem to be logical at first glance. The argument could be correct if the premises on which it is based were to be true. However, in arriving at his conclusion the author has made some assumptions for which he has not given any corroborating evidence.
The author has stated that the Arctic deer migrate when the sea separating the islands is frozen, so they are able to travel over the ice. He claims th...
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Sentence: Since this decline coinciodes with the genral global warming trends which causes the sea ice to melt, the author has reached the conclusion that the deer are not able to follow their age old migration pattern due to melting of sea ice.
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