Submitted by rainbow222 on November 18, 2007
Analyzing Paragraphs
Laura Gintz
EN 104
November 11, 2007
Chapter 3 Assignment
“If we do nothing to curb carbon emissions, we will commit ourselves to a future that most Americans cannot even imagine. Jim Hansen, the leading climate scientist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), presents the ten degree Fahrenheit scenario: it will send fifty percent or more species into extinction. That is equivalent to the mass extinction that occurred fifty-five million years ago. In his words, ‘Life will survive, but it will do so on a transformed planet.’ A mere five-degree Fahrenheit temperature increase...
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