Thanks for your replyKarishmaB
This is contradicting thepremise:
Guillemots need 80 consecutive snow-free days in a year to raise their chicks, so until average temperatures in the Arctic began to rise recently, the guillemots’ range was limited to the southernmost Arcticcoast.
The premises need to be taken to be true. Hence this option won't makesense.
I believe that the premise is that" Guillemots need 80 consecutive snow -free days in a year to raise theirchicks ", which the author is using to provide support for his Intermediate conclusion -"[color=#f1c40f] So until average temperatures in the Arctic began to rise recently, he guillemots’ range was limited to the southernmost Arctic
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KarishmaB wrote:
PReciSioN wrote:
I wanted to speculate about what other information could weaken the argument.
Let's think about some scenarios -
Scenario 1) Evidence comes to light that even before temperatures in the Arctic started to rise, the northern areas had more than 80 snowfreedays.
Let's think about some scenarios -
Scenario 1) Evidence comes to light that even before temperatures in the Arctic started to rise, the northern areas had more than 80 snowfreedays.
This is contradicting thepremise:
Guillemots need 80 consecutive snow-free days in a year to raise their chicks, so until average temperatures in the Arctic began to rise recently, the guillemots’ range was limited to the southernmost Arcticcoast.
The premises need to be taken to be true. Hence this option won't makesense.
I believe that the premise is that" Guillemots need 80 consecutive snow -free days in a year to raise theirchicks ", which the author is using to provide support for his Intermediate conclusion -"[color=#f1c40f] So until average temperatures in the Arctic began to rise recently, he guillemots’ range was limited to the southernmost Arctic
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Statistics : Posted by PReciSioN • on 07 Aug 2009, 19:39 • Replies 60 • Views 70392
