From the Ted Talk by TED-Ed: The "myth" of the boiling frog
Unscramble the Blue Letters
If we keep emtnitig genroeushe gases at our current pace, sitntscies predict temperatures will rise 4 degrees from their pre-industrial levels by 2100. They’ve identified 1.5 degrees of warming— golbal averages half a degree warmer than today’s— as a threshold beyond which the negative iaptcms of climate change will become increasingly severe. To keep from crossing that threshold, we need to get our greenhouse gas emissions down to zero as fast as possible.
Or rather, we have to get eossimins down to what's called net zero, meaning we may still be putting some greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but we take out as much as we put in.
Open Cloze
If we keep __________________ gases at our current pace, __________ predict temperatures will rise 4 degrees from their pre-industrial levels by 2100. They’ve identified 1.5 degrees of warming— ______ averages half a degree warmer than today’s— as a threshold beyond which the negative _______ of climate change will become increasingly severe. To keep from crossing that threshold, we need to get our greenhouse gas emissions down to zero as fast as possible.
Or rather, we have to get _________ down to what's called net zero, meaning we may still be putting some greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but we take out as much as we put in.
Solution
greenhouse
scientists
global
impacts
emissions
emitting
Original Text
If we keep emitting greenhouse gases at our current pace, scientists predict temperatures will rise 4 degrees from their pre-industrial levels by 2100. They’ve identified 1.5 degrees of warming— global averages half a degree warmer than today’s— as a threshold beyond which the negative impacts of climate change will become increasingly severe. To keep from crossing that threshold, we need to get our greenhouse gas emissions down to zero as fast as possible.
Or rather, we have to get emissions down to what's called net zero, meaning we may still be putting some greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but we take out as much as we put in.