Theories of Little Ice Age Causes
The article provides few possible theories that explain occurrence of phenomenon called the Little Ice Age that lasted from 14th to 20th century, where there were unusual low temperatures everywhere around the world. Nonetheless, the speaker opposes these theories, by claiming that the information is out-of-date.
First theory suggests melting glaciers as the main cause of cooling freshwater in the Gulf Stream, one of the largest ocean currents. As it is known, temperature in the Gulf Stream has a huge impact on Earth's climate in general. However, the lecturer contradicts this statement. He assumes that stream could've only affected such regions as Europe or North America. This theory does not explain lowered climate in the Southern hemisphere.
Secondly, the author talks about volcanic eruptions that usually result in dark clouds of dust and some other gases being released in the atmosphere. Those obstructed sunlight from reaching the Earth surface. On the other hand, the speaker believes that this kind of geological events would be visible for ordinary people. Yet, there are no such records remained.
Finally, due to numerous diseases and unfavorable living conditions human population rapidly decreased. Consequently, there was no demand for deforestation. Trees absorbed carbon dioxide, reducing the greenhouse effect. Albeit, the lecturer supposes that this would not be able to create such a tremendous long-term effect of global cooling.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, finally, first, however, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, in general, kind of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1250.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.60538116592 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74747767854 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.72197309417 0.540411800872 134% => OK
syllable_count: 378.9 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.8128949696 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.3333333333 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.8666666667 21.698381199 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.46666666667 7.06452816374 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150312611603 0.272083759551 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0309807476744 0.0996497079465 31% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0684522503538 0.0662205650399 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0760009169222 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0849701510505 0.0443174109184 192% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.81 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.67 12.2367328918 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.28 8.42419426049 122% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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