Carbon Dioxide Paper Evaluation

1. https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AR-g2f6dIA0oZGdxZG1zaHdfMTljZDJqYzhweA&hl=en_US

2. I believe that the criteria we established were good criteria. I think that the two criteria we chose can and are used by other groups and committees, when evaluating a scientific paper.

3. I believe that the strength of my group, the "No" group, were very apparent in the actual presentation of their findings. The "No" groups did a nice job researching on the paper, looking for evidence on making the paper invalid, and conveying that in a way that the rest of the class could see and understand in a short period of time. I felt that, at least two of the three "No" groups, were confident in their content that they came up with. If there was a question or objection from anyone in the class, it seemed that the group was ready to rebuttal. All of these strengths I believed help the "No" group win in the voting. Some of the weaknesses that we had as a group was to find evidence to prove the paper wrong and being able to apply it to the criteria we set. Another struggle we had, at least for my individual group, was deciding what things should we present and which information would give us a strong presentation.

4. What went well was the communication between people. My individual group used Google Docs, which provides an accessible way for everyone to view, make changes, and provide feedback on our power point deck. One struggle we did face was always having every group member there. It was a busy period for several group members, so it was difficult to keep up with some of the things people had dug up about the paper to present on.

5. I believed in my position on the paper. It made it a little easier to do research and present on.

6. It is difficult to say if we made the right choice. Based on our beliefs and evidence we found disproving the paper, it's hard to validate the paper and the information with in it.

7. Kind of going off of what we talked about in class, the US is beginning to become smaller in the global scale of things like; economy, population and power. The things we do are having a lesser impact to the world  then they did in the past.

8. What we do as individuals matters because, just like Einstein, Newton, Bill Gates and others, an individual can make a huge impact to the world, it's market and it's environment. All it takes is for someone to say something, propose an idea, create a life altering invention and everything swings.