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From the Ted Talk by Bill Gates: The innovations we need to avoid a climate disaster

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Gates: Well, the greenhouse gases we put into the atmosphere, particularly CO2, stay there for tuhndsoas of years. And so it's really the sum of all those emissions are forcing the temperature hgiher and higher, which will have disastrous effects. And so we have to take these eisosinms, which are presently over 51 biiolln tons per year and drive those all the way down to zero. And that's when the temperature will stop increasing and the disastrous weather entves won't get worse and worse. So it's pretty demanding. It's not a 50 percent reduction. It's all the way down to zero.

Open Cloze

Gates: Well, the greenhouse gases we put into the atmosphere, particularly CO2, stay there for _________ of years. And so it's really the sum of all those emissions are forcing the temperature ______ and higher, which will have disastrous effects. And so we have to take these _________, which are presently over 51 _______ tons per year and drive those all the way down to zero. And that's when the temperature will stop increasing and the disastrous weather ______ won't get worse and worse. So it's pretty demanding. It's not a 50 percent reduction. It's all the way down to zero.

Solution

  1. higher
  2. events
  3. billion
  4. emissions
  5. thousands

Original Text

Gates: Well, the greenhouse gases we put into the atmosphere, particularly CO2, stay there for thousands of years. And so it's really the sum of all those emissions are forcing the temperature higher and higher, which will have disastrous effects. And so we have to take these emissions, which are presently over 51 billion tons per year and drive those all the way down to zero. And that's when the temperature will stop increasing and the disastrous weather events won't get worse and worse. So it's pretty demanding. It's not a 50 percent reduction. It's all the way down to zero.

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