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By 2047, Coldest Years May Be Warmer Than Hottest in Past, Scientists Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • temperatures across most of the earth will rise to levels with no recorded precedent by the middle of this century
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      Is this saying that Earth will reach a higher temperature? Would there be 60 degrees Celsius? I am very worried about my descendants.
  • “the coldest year in the future will be warmer than the hottest year in the past,”
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      (Light bulb) Global warming is a very serious issue going around the world. If Mora's statement is true, does this mean that there would not be negative temperatures? No snow? Would snow be a thing our descendants would see only from the book?
  • Go back in your life to think about the hottest, most traumatic event you have experienced,” Dr. Mora said in an interview. “What we’re saying is that very soon, that event is going to become the norm.”
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      It feels like Dr.Mora is persuading as well as warning us to reduce carbondioxide and other harmful gases.
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  • caveats
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      (Vocabulary) Caveats: noun) warning against certain acts
  • emissions cuts would buy critical time for nature and for human society to adapt, as well as for development of technologies that might help further reduce emissions.
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      The writer is telling us that vigorous global effort is needed in order to make a better environment for our descendants and us.
  • relatable
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      (vocabulary) relatable: adj) to be related to something else
  • extra heat being trapped by greenhouse gases will push the temperature beyond historical bounds much sooner
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      (Check mark) Prior knowledge
  • 2031 for Mexico City, 2029 for Jakarta and for Lagos, Nigeria, and 2033 for Bogotá, Colombia.
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      This is very soon. We should either start to prepare for the future or give strong efforts to reducing CO2.
Jee Yoon Park

America's breadbasket aquifer running dry; massive agriculture collapse inevitable - 5 views

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    " America's breadbasket aquifer running dry; massive agriculture collapse inevitable Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: aquifer depletion, Ogallala, health news 3,189 1 (NaturalNews) It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas. It's underneath most of Nebraska's farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It's called the Ogallala Aquifer, and it is being pumped dry. See the map of this aquifer here: http://www.naturalnews.com/images/Ogallala.g... Without the Ogallala Aquifer, America's heartland food production collapses. No water means no irrigation for the corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people and animals. And each year, the Ogallala Aquifer drops another few inches as it is literally being sucked dry by the tens of thousands of agricultural wells that tap into it across the heartland of America. This problem with all this is that the Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged in any significant way from rainfall or rivers. This is so-called "fossil water" because once you use it, it's gone. And it's disappearing now faster than ever. In some regions along the aquifer, the water level has dropped so far that it has effectively disappeared -- places like Happy, Texas, where a once-booming agricultural town has collapsed to a population of just 595. All the wells drilled there in the 1950's tapped into the Ogallala Aquifer and seemed to provide abundant water at the time. But today the wells have all run dry. Happy, Texas has become a place of despair. Dead cattle. Wilted crops. Once-moist soils turned to dust. And Happy is just the beginning of this story because this same agricultural tragedy will be repeated across Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Colorado in the next few decades. That'
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