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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

But right now, with atmospheric warming, the paomfrrest is thawing and draining. And when permafrost thaws and drains, it makes it possible for mecirbos to come in and rather quickly decompose all this carbon, with the potential to rseeale hundreds of billions of metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases. And this release of additional greenhouse gsaes into the atmosphere will only contribute to further warming that makes this pnacdmieret even worse, as it starts a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop that could go on and on and on, dramatically changing our climate future.

Open Cloze

But right now, with atmospheric warming, the __________ is thawing and draining. And when permafrost thaws and drains, it makes it possible for ________ to come in and rather quickly decompose all this carbon, with the potential to _______ hundreds of billions of metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases. And this release of additional greenhouse _____ into the atmosphere will only contribute to further warming that makes this ___________ even worse, as it starts a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop that could go on and on and on, dramatically changing our climate future.

Solution

  1. predicament
  2. release
  3. gases
  4. microbes
  5. permafrost

Original Text

But right now, with atmospheric warming, the permafrost is thawing and draining. And when permafrost thaws and drains, it makes it possible for microbes to come in and rather quickly decompose all this carbon, with the potential to release hundreds of billions of metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases. And this release of additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will only contribute to further warming that makes this predicament even worse, as it starts a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop that could go on and on and on, dramatically changing our climate future.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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

  1. additional
  2. atmosphere
  3. atmospheric
  4. billions
  5. carbon
  6. changing
  7. climate
  8. contribute
  9. decompose
  10. draining
  11. drains
  12. dramatically
  13. feedback
  14. form
  15. future
  16. gases
  17. greenhouse
  18. hundreds
  19. loop
  20. metric
  21. microbes
  22. permafrost
  23. positive
  24. potential
  25. predicament
  26. quickly
  27. release
  28. starts
  29. thawing
  30. thaws
  31. tons
  32. warming
  33. worse