English - pre released texts - An Ominous Warning

What Is It About ?

The UK'S lack of awareness about the devastating affects of climate change.

Fact + Opinion

• Makes it more truthful
• Facts back up opinion

Language

• Emotive makes you feel sympathetic - makes you want to do somehting about it
• 'ravaged' destroyed
• 'rapidly changing the face' its happening quickly, changing what they are used to
• 'threatening the survival of billions'
• 'face devastation' dramatic
• 'millions of tons' a vast scale
• 'admitted' shows guilt

Effectiveness of headline, image and layout

Headline

• 'Ominous' complex wording- important, true, curiousity, urgency
• 'warning' dramatic
• 'from above' religious connotations- from heaven/God, must be important and worrying

Images

• Picture of base camp underneath mountains- camp is sinking
• In base camp picture the men are smiling- contrasts sadness and worry of the article, shows when the picture was taken they were happy but now they're not

Layout

• 'The Independent,' type of readership- business men/women, intellectual
• '6th July 2007' the situation could have got even worse since then
• paragraphs chronological