tailieunhanh - Developing skills for the toefl ibt transcript part 5

In fact, only about 10 of her poems were published before her death, though she actually wrote about 1700 of them during her lifetime! Pretty amazing, isn't it? She wrote far more poems than were published while she was alive. After her death, her work became more recognized. Today, you can find tons of books on Dickinson and her poetry. | Developing-4Books_5 3 48 PM Page 695 erly combined. They argue that to date no scientific study has proven an undeniable link between man-made gas emissions and global warming. Let us examine the arguments more closely The environmentalists claim that global warming is responsible for many natural disasters. They believe that as the world becomes warmer due to the heatretaining gases we pump into the atmosphere our planet experiences severe climatic upheaval. This upheaval causes more droughts more hurricanes and tornadoes and even phenomena like tidal waves. Environmentalists believe we are pushing our planet towards environmental disaster. Those who oppose this view have a different argument. They suggest that natural disasters and wild weather have been around for millions of years. The example they offer to prove their argument is the El Nino weather phenomenon. Have any of you heard of it Well El Nino is an ancient weather phenomenon that sometimes causes ocean temperatures to rise or tropical winds to change direction. These changes often result in terrible storms or flooding in certain areas of the Earth. In other areas it can even cause drought. It s a totally natural phenomenon as natural as volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. So the opponents of the environmental lobby think the argument that humans cause global warming is hypothesis not fact. Instead they complain that limiting emissions is going to cost Jobs and money Until there is indisputable proof linking greenhouse gas emissions to increased global temperatures they tell us there is no urgency in cutting down on these emissions. Practice 3 W We know that reducing our water consumption is important for a variety of reasons. As we have been studying in our course in agriculture this semester we know that one of the most important reasons we need to curtail our water consumption is so that we will have enough water to produce food around the world. It is easy for us to be worried about this .