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From the Ted Talk by Kate Marvel: Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And that is where there might be space for hope. If goblal warming triggers cloud changes that make for a less powerful greenhouse or a more effective sunshade, then that would enhance the cooling power of clouds. It would act in oposotpiin to global warming, and that's what's happening in those cmliate models that project relatively muted warming. But climate models struggle with cudlos, and this uncertainty — it goes both ways. Clouds could help us out with global warming. They could also make it worse.
Open Cloze
And that is where there might be space for hope. If ______ warming triggers cloud changes that make for a less powerful greenhouse or a more effective sunshade, then that would enhance the cooling power of clouds. It would act in __________ to global warming, and that's what's happening in those _______ models that project relatively muted warming. But climate models struggle with ______, and this uncertainty — it goes both ways. Clouds could help us out with global warming. They could also make it worse.
Solution
- global
- opposition
- climate
- clouds
Original Text
And that is where there might be space for hope. If global warming triggers cloud changes that make for a less powerful greenhouse or a more effective sunshade, then that would enhance the cooling power of clouds. It would act in opposition to global warming, and that's what's happening in those climate models that project relatively muted warming. But climate models struggle with clouds, and this uncertainty — it goes both ways. Clouds could help us out with global warming. They could also make it worse.
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