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1. What can the rise of temperature lead to?
2. What region can be mostly affected by climate changes?
3. What is the disastrous result of industrial development?
4. How should people change their outlook and lifestyle?
5. What is the main tendency of climate changes everywhere?
6. Why do people react so emotionally to climate changes?
7. How long have people watched climate changes?
A. Jerome K. Jerome said that we are never happy with the weather. The weather, like the government, is always in the wrong. But something has been really wrong with it lately. Droughts, wildfires, landslides, avalanches, gales, tornadoes, floods... All over Europe it’s the same story. The weather is definitely getting worse and the so-called extreme weather events are becoming more and more frequent.
B. Greenhouse effect is actually a natural feature of our atmosphere without which life on our planet would be impossible. Certain atmospheric gases (the most important of them is carbon dioxide — CO₂) work as a kind of blanket, keeping the Earth warm. The amount of these ‘greenhouse’ gases used to be more or less the same for centuries. But the industrial revolution changed this steadiness. Because of heavy industry and other human activities the amounts of CO₂ and other gases have increased by 30%.
C. Climate experts predict that by 2050 the global average temperature will rise by 2–3 degrees. Northern regions will be wetter and warmer, southern regions will be drier and hotter. Forests will grow instead of tundra in Siberia. It’ll be possible to grow grapes in Britain. Not so bad so far. But parts of Spain, Italy and Greece will turn as dry as a desert. Snow will melt in the Alps and other mountains, and the water will cause floods, landslides and avalanches.
D. Moreover, some experts argue that the short-term global warming will lead to a more catastrophic long-term global cooling. As the arctic ice cap melts, a flow of fresh water will change currents, including the Gulf Stream, which now keeps Europe warm. Certainly we can cheer ourselves up with the idea that this forecast is far from proven. After all, people began to measure temperature not so long ago. The climatologic history of the world is long and man’s knowledge of it is short.
E. But it doesn’t mean that we can just sit and wait. Since the global warming is the result of air pollution, the main thing is to lower greenhouse gases emissions. People should use clean energy, such as wind, solar and wave power, which do not emit greenhouse gases. If we recycle cans and paper, take public transport and think about energy efficiency in the home — switching off unused lights, for example, we’ll reduce the threat of global climate change.
F. The Arctic is extremely vulnerable to climate change. The region is warming much more rapidly than the global average. Scientists state that the winter warming of northern regions by the end of the century will be at least 40 percent greater than the global warming. Temperature increases for the central Arctic are projected to be about 3–4°C during the next 50 years. Even an optimistic scenario predicts a result of a 4°C increase in autumn and winter average temperatures in the Arctic by the end of this century.