Not all the information you may find while searching the Web will be true, and not all Web pages should be considered reliable. Take the brief Web site tour outlined below and SEE WHAT YOU THINK!
Begin here:
Click on http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/199907.html
and read the headline "New Evidence Heats Up Climate Debate", for July
15.
Then, click on http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/globalwarming.html#Q2,
and read "Is the Climate Warming?"
Do these authors seem to be expressing opposite opinions?
Yes, they are! Many articles tell only one side of an issue, or sometimes
you have to read much further than the first few paragraphs to find out
what is really being said.
BE CAREFUL!!
Now look at these two addresses:
www.whitehouse.org
www.whitehouse.gov
Without clicking can you tell where you will
find genuine information about our President's home?
If not, click on them. You can tell
by just glancing at the home page which one is reliable!
IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS ABOUT A SITE---STOP!!
Finally, read the article at this site:
http://theonion.com/onion3526/klingon_navajo.html
Sounds interesting, but hard to believe-- why?
1. If you clicked on the "back" button and saw the titles of the other articles in this issue, you would not take any piece published at this location seriously! Am I right?
2. Just considering this article alone, did you notice that none of the quotations were cited? How can we be sure who said them?
BE SKEPTICAL, ASK QUESTIONS AND CHECK FOR CITATIONS!!
This page was last updated November 14, 2001
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