New climate theories
Air pollution is an increasing environmental concern, and rising global warming temperatures
are not the only consequence....
Climate change is now an indisputable phe- According to Schneider, the results will endanger
nomenon. Scientists have identified two species such as polar bears. The traditional life-
distinct and worrying developments. While style of the Inuit people of the Arctic will also be
global warm-ing, which has been predicted for impacted. At the same time, the British Antarctic
some time, is clearly taking place, there is also Survey has revised its predictions about the col-
growing evi-dence of global dimming a lapse of the Antarctic ice sheet. It used to be be-
reduction of sunlight.
lieved that it would remain intact until the turn of
According to BBC Online, the term global the 22nd century. Now there is a risk of a much
dimming was created by Gerry Stanhill, an more imminent collapse.
David Walter
En-glish scientist who lives in Israel. Stanhill
found that sunlight had reduced by 22% in
Israel over the past few years. He also noted
similar changes in the United States (with)
sunlight down 10%), in parts of the former
Soviet Union (with a reduction of 30%), and
in parts of the British Isles (with a loss of
16%) the cause appears to be air pollution.
"Climate change impacts humans and
animals.
Air pollution caused by fossil fuel
emissions, will also probably cause a further
rise of 0.6 degrees Celsius of global warming,
according to professor Stephen Schneider, a
leading climatol-ogist from Stanford
University in California. He points out that in
the past century there has already been a 0.7.
degree temperature increase.
READING COMPREHENSION
Find in the text the words corresponding to the following definition.
1.
2.
3.
A rise in the world temperature that
has become a major environmental
issue
to direct someone's attention.
to be
A gathering of a sample of data or
opinions considered.
representative of a whole
to fall abruptly and completely.
to continue unchanged
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