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From the Ted Talk by Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
This is a problem because the warming heats up the frozen ground around the Arctic Ocean, where there is a massive amount of frozen carbon which, when it twhas, is turned into methane by miboecrs. caempord to the total amount of global warming pollution in the atmosphere, that aounmt could double if we cross this tipping point. Already in some shallow lakes in Alaska, methane is actively bbnuilbg up out of the water. Professor Katey watler from the University of akalsa went out with another team to another shallow lake last winter. Video: Whoa! (Laughter) Al Gore: She's okay. The question is whether we will be.
Open Cloze
This is a problem because the warming heats up the frozen ground around the Arctic Ocean, where there is a massive amount of frozen carbon which, when it _____, is turned into methane by ________. ________ to the total amount of global warming pollution in the atmosphere, that ______ could double if we cross this tipping point. Already in some shallow lakes in Alaska, methane is actively ________ up out of the water. Professor Katey ______ from the University of ______ went out with another team to another shallow lake last winter. Video: Whoa! (Laughter) Al Gore: She's okay. The question is whether we will be.
Solution
- thaws
- walter
- microbes
- alaska
- bubbling
- compared
- amount
Original Text
This is a problem because the warming heats up the frozen ground around the Arctic Ocean, where there is a massive amount of frozen carbon which, when it thaws, is turned into methane by microbes. Compared to the total amount of global warming pollution in the atmosphere, that amount could double if we cross this tipping point. Already in some shallow lakes in Alaska, methane is actively bubbling up out of the water. Professor Katey Walter from the University of Alaska went out with another team to another shallow lake last winter. Video: Whoa! (Laughter) Al Gore: She's okay. The question is whether we will be.
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