full transcript

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


  1. greenhouse
  2. scientists
  3. global
  4. impacts
  5. emissions
  6. 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.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
global average 2
average temperatures 2
carbon dioxide 2
greenhouse gases 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
global average temperatures 2


Important Words


  1. atmosphere
  2. averages
  3. called
  4. change
  5. climate
  6. crossing
  7. current
  8. degree
  9. degrees
  10. emissions
  11. emitting
  12. fast
  13. gas
  14. gases
  15. global
  16. greenhouse
  17. identified
  18. impacts
  19. increasingly
  20. levels
  21. meaning
  22. negative
  23. net
  24. pace
  25. predict
  26. put
  27. putting
  28. rise
  29. scientists
  30. severe
  31. temperatures
  32. threshold
  33. warmer