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From the Ted Talk by David Keith: A critical look at geoengineering against climate change

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is a new idea that's crept up that may be, essentially, a cleeevrr idea than putting sulfates in. Whether this idea is right or some other idea is right, I think it's almost certain we will elaevltuny think of cleverer things to do than just putting sulfur in. That if engineers and scientists really turned their minds to this, it's azanmig how we can affect the planet. The one thing about this is it gives us extraordinary lgervaee. This improved science and engineering will, whether we like it or not, give us more and more leverage to affect the planet, to control the planet, to give us weather and cmtaile control — not because we plan it, not because we want it, just because sncceie delivers it to us bit by bit, with better knowledge of the way the system works and better engineering tools to eefcft it.

Open Cloze


This is a new idea that's crept up that may be, essentially, a ________ idea than putting sulfates in. Whether this idea is right or some other idea is right, I think it's almost certain we will __________ think of cleverer things to do than just putting sulfur in. That if engineers and scientists really turned their minds to this, it's _______ how we can affect the planet. The one thing about this is it gives us extraordinary ________. This improved science and engineering will, whether we like it or not, give us more and more leverage to affect the planet, to control the planet, to give us weather and _______ control — not because we plan it, not because we want it, just because _______ delivers it to us bit by bit, with better knowledge of the way the system works and better engineering tools to ______ it.

Solution


  1. science
  2. eventually
  3. amazing
  4. leverage
  5. effect
  6. climate
  7. cleverer

Original Text


This is a new idea that's crept up that may be, essentially, a cleverer idea than putting sulfates in. Whether this idea is right or some other idea is right, I think it's almost certain we will eventually think of cleverer things to do than just putting sulfur in. That if engineers and scientists really turned their minds to this, it's amazing how we can affect the planet. The one thing about this is it gives us extraordinary leverage. This improved science and engineering will, whether we like it or not, give us more and more leverage to affect the planet, to control the planet, to give us weather and climate control — not because we plan it, not because we want it, just because science delivers it to us bit by bit, with better knowledge of the way the system works and better engineering tools to effect it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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climate impacts 2


Important Words


  1. affect
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  3. bit
  4. cleverer
  5. climate
  6. control
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  10. engineering
  11. engineers
  12. essentially
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  19. leverage
  20. minds
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  22. planet
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  24. science
  25. scientists
  26. sulfates
  27. sulfur
  28. system
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  30. turned
  31. weather
  32. works