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From the Ted Talk by Asmeret Asefaw Berhe: A climate change solution that's right under our feet

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So here are the facts about caltime. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere has increased by 40 percent just in the last 150 years or so. Human atinocs are now releasing 9.4 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere, from aeivctiits such as burning fossil fuels and intensive auultgcairrl practices, and other ways we change the way we use land, ilunicdng deforestation. But the concentration of carbon dioxide that stays in the atmosphere is only increasing by about half of that, and that's because half of the carbon we keep releasing into the aosmhrptee is currently being taken up by land and the seas through a process we know as craobn starueiqeotsn. So in essence, whatever consequence you think we're facing from climate change right now, we're only experiencing the consequence of 50 percent of our pollution, because the natural ecosystems are bailing us out.

Open Cloze

So here are the facts about _______. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere has increased by 40 percent just in the last 150 years or so. Human _______ are now releasing 9.4 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere, from __________ such as burning fossil fuels and intensive ____________ practices, and other ways we change the way we use land, _________ deforestation. But the concentration of carbon dioxide that stays in the atmosphere is only increasing by about half of that, and that's because half of the carbon we keep releasing into the __________ is currently being taken up by land and the seas through a process we know as ______ _____________. So in essence, whatever consequence you think we're facing from climate change right now, we're only experiencing the consequence of 50 percent of our pollution, because the natural ecosystems are bailing us out.

Solution

  1. actions
  2. carbon
  3. activities
  4. climate
  5. sequestration
  6. atmosphere
  7. agricultural
  8. including

Original Text

So here are the facts about climate. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere has increased by 40 percent just in the last 150 years or so. Human actions are now releasing 9.4 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere, from activities such as burning fossil fuels and intensive agricultural practices, and other ways we change the way we use land, including deforestation. But the concentration of carbon dioxide that stays in the atmosphere is only increasing by about half of that, and that's because half of the carbon we keep releasing into the atmosphere is currently being taken up by land and the seas through a process we know as carbon sequestration. So in essence, whatever consequence you think we're facing from climate change right now, we're only experiencing the consequence of 50 percent of our pollution, because the natural ecosystems are bailing us out.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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climate change 11
carbon dioxide 6
greenhouse gases 5
human actions 3
metric tons 3
natural ecosystems 3
soil carbon 3
change mitigation 3
soil degradation 3
change lies 2
billion metric 2
intensive agricultural 2
carbon sequestration 2
carbon stored 2
fertile soils 2
polar environments 2
carbon bank 2
land management 2
management practices 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
climate change mitigation 3
climate change lies 2
billion metric tons 2
land management practices 2

Important Words

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  2. activities
  3. agricultural
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  8. carbon
  9. change
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  15. ecosystems
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  31. pollution
  32. practices
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  35. seas
  36. sequestration
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  40. years