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From the Ted Talk by Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?

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In the last five years we've added 70 million tons of CO2 every 24 hours — 25 mliloin tons every day to the oceans. Look carefully at the area of the eastern Pacific, from the acmraeis, extending westward, and on either side of the Indian subcontinent, where there is a radical doielpten of oxyegn in the oceans. The biggest single cause of global warming, along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the bruinng of fosisl fuels. Oil is a pblerom, and coal is the most serious problem. The United States is one of the two largest emitters, along with China. And the proposal has been to build a lot more coal plants.

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In the last five years we've added 70 million tons of CO2 every 24 hours — 25 _______ tons every day to the oceans. Look carefully at the area of the eastern Pacific, from the ________, extending westward, and on either side of the Indian subcontinent, where there is a radical _________ of ______ in the oceans. The biggest single cause of global warming, along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the _______ of ______ fuels. Oil is a _______, and coal is the most serious problem. The United States is one of the two largest emitters, along with China. And the proposal has been to build a lot more coal plants.

Solution


  1. million
  2. depletion
  3. oxygen
  4. americas
  5. fossil
  6. burning
  7. problem

Original Text


In the last five years we've added 70 million tons of CO2 every 24 hours — 25 million tons every day to the oceans. Look carefully at the area of the eastern Pacific, from the Americas, extending westward, and on either side of the Indian subcontinent, where there is a radical depletion of oxygen in the oceans. The biggest single cause of global warming, along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the burning of fossil fuels. Oil is a problem, and coal is the most serious problem. The United States is one of the two largest emitters, along with China. And the proposal has been to build a lot more coal plants.

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