TEXTO:
Fooling with Mother Nature
Here comes the sun: How best to deal with climate change.
The shock of superstorm Sandy last year got a lot
of people wondering about better ways to deal with the
weather — perhaps even how to change it. John Latham,
a climate scientist based ∈Colorado, has been
[5] proposing ways to do that for more than two decades.
His studies show that it should be possible to spray fine
particles of sea water into clouds, increasing their ability
to reflect sunlight and thus reduce temperatures below.
Latham argues that global warming is leading to
[10] “irreversible and possibly catastrophic consequences”
and that the major polluting countries appear unwilling
to take dramatic action.
But Latham claims his cloud-seeding techniques
would help to hold Earth’s temperature constant “until a
[15] clean form of energy is developed to take over from oil,
gas, and coal.” He says, quite optimistically, that they
could keep the planet’s temperature stable for “perhaps
50 years.” If true, that would be a welcome breather from
impending doom. But what’s missing is money to fund
[20] large-scale experiments — and perhaps for a reason.
One thing we should know by now about our climate is
that when you fix one problem, you may create another.
DICKEY, Christopher . BIG THINK: Around the world ∈ six ideas. Newsweek, March 25, 2013, p. 9.
Fill ∈ the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).
Considering what the text says about John Latham, it’s correct to say:
( ) John Latham proposes to battle climate change.
( ) He has been working with weather-related issues over twenty years.
( ) He doesn’t think that global warming poses a real threat to the environment.
( ) He’s aware that most polluting countries do not seem to be worried about solving the problem of global warming.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is
