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PASSAGE 3 GLOBAL WARMING­
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f~LOBAL WARMING AND GREEEMHOUSE GASES
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. heating, ~ricitygenera~n, and so on. Awarmer earth can disrupt
rainfall patterns, causing a rise in . . sand leadij1gtG'a liost of other harmful effects on plants, animals, and
humans. According to experts, av.tra~.glob~1 tel'l1peratures are predicted to rise between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees
Celsius over the next 100 years, arate of
.' 'gher than any that has occurred over the past 10,000 years! .
What is the cause of this warming
earth's climate? Over the past 50 years, the culprit has been'
greenhouse gas emissions. Since the injiclStrial revolution, economic growth has depended on the consumption
, (of fossil fuels-coal, oil, and naturalg<ts that are burned by factories, electric power plants, cars, and households.
i:.l;he resulting car"9n.di.QXj<ie' (CO () emissions are the largest source of the problem: greenhouse gases. The~e
'; .g~ trap the irlfrared
radiation,. ~eap from the earth within its oxygen atmosphere and create global wal'~Ili!'
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EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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Changes in the earth's climate harmful to the environment. people, ahdahimals in a number of ways. Climate
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• Decrease water supplies and make water unsafe to drink in arid and semiarid regions
• Increase the risk of floods and droughts in many other regions
• Cause outbreaks of diseases like malaria. dengue, and cholera, especially in the tropics and subtropics
• Kill off the last of already vulnerable species forever (extinction)
• Harm the delicate ecosystems (balance of nature) in coral reefs, forests. grilsslands, and high-mountain areas
• Trigger natural disasters, such as storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes ....
• Decrease farmers' ability to grow food and other plants they rely Of! to make a living in the tropics
and sub-tropics !Raise sea leyels so that tens of millions of people living in Iow-Iyirig areas are permanently flooded 'oot of their homes and land
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.' • Threaten the ~erY existence of smalilow-Iyil'lg island states
WHY THE POORSUFJER THE MOST
Climate mange p()sesextreme risks to developing ~ies bel~use its effect on water, agriculture, forests, and
.fisheries h~adiJect impact on people's heakh and live_ds. The Intergovernmental ~anel on Climate Change
OPCC)1laS corlduQed that poor people living in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of
climate change. The IPCC estimates that a 3 degree Celsius increase jn.global temperatures could lead to a loss
of gross domestic product (GOP) in developing countries of 2 to
'ent per year. This loss of income and
money would have a devastating impact on their population's
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governmental if\Siitutions, and money toc~ with
predict«!,W:experience the greatest changes in climatEl'-ltM! troI:~ .·and' SI1flhllii:S"i-aIi!'.ere:th
the w61:1d's poor live.
Sadly. most of the greenhouse gas emissionsthat causetbese dev.astatq di~l!8tf~duii'!iE!S a. .'oorrt
industrialized countries. Emtssions per person in a rich country
poor country. With (lnly J5percent Qf tl!e:.~'s
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INTEINA'I1ONAL_5PONSES
At the 1992 Earth Suthmit in-(tio de Janeiro, Brazii, many
their greenhouse gas emissions at 1990 levels by the year
Japan, for the United NationsConferenctollClimate Change,
a legally binding document that ~'llsonthdustrialized natlons·-wtllc
emissions-to cut their greenhouse&as emissions by an
levels below 1990 by 2012. As of February 26, 2005, when the
ratified the Protocol.
To learn more, ched out: http://unfccc.inf/
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WHAT CAN WE,DO?
Our global community tAust reduce' polJO!:ion from fossil fuels in ways that don't destroy economies and are fair
to those countries that bear Igtie respdftsibility for harmful CO2 emissions. Our leaders, businesses, and com­
munities should promote sustainable ~elopment-modernization that doesn't deplete or pollute resources-by
supporting efforts to do the following;
• Switch to renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and biofuels (fuels made from plant materials sucl>f
as wood, farm waste, and ethanol) to provide our electricity
• Improve nature's ability to soak up carbon dioxide in the air by planting new forests and using new methods
to encourage soil to absorb carbon
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• Provide incentives for industries to be more fuel efficient by implementing national and international systems
of buying and selling carbon emissions trading permits. (The box below shows how this works.)
• Encourage businesses to engage in projects in developing countries that use innovative
climate-friendly technologies
• Conserve energy and improve energy efficiency by making power stations and factories run more efficiently,
driving more fuel-efficient cars or using mass transportation, and better insulating buildings and homes
-Imagine you are a company in a developing country that wants to build-windmilts to generate electricity,
but making electricity this way is costlier than burning coal. Arich
government gives you money
to build a -wind farm- to create clean, non-poU1!n etectricity. In
rn, the rich country's government
earns a credit for the amount of CO z emissions re'<tuced by using . d r ec.tl!.an burning coal-·a credit it
can apply toward its emissions redudion target.
saction a ds ero additional emissions to the
environment helpirlll ~ rich co
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emission reduction targets, whife creating a
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Coming Next
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ISSUES OF 1 WORLD MAN !?
WORLD MAN(jA: :-
It's no day at the beach for
Rei next issue when he
faces his most dangerous
training challenge yet.
Mercenaries kidnap our
hero and force him to fight
in an illegal army side by
side with other children
who have been ripped from
their homes and families.
Struggling just to survive
from one day to the next,
will Rei be able to escape,
let alone lead his fellow
child soldiers to freedom?
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Passage I: IIOVERTY-A Ray otilght .
The stakes rise when
Rei meets a young
woman fighting just
to survive! Can Rei
vanquish the • re
of poverty.. ..
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Passage 2: Hill/AIDS-first Love
Rei heads for the big
city and falls for a
feisty young cocktail
waitress! But the
woman he lo~es
is hiding a terrible
family secret. ..
ifteflt-reor-old orphan Rei survives by his wits and guts on the mean
streets of the world. His fortunes seem to look up when he meets a
mysterious stronger who offers to help him ochM his tkeom of
becoming the greotest mortiol artist in the WOtId••• But Rei's lToiller is more
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intemted in detteIoping his mind, SPirit. antl-uFl--hetIrt than his throshing,
raging, fighting tnow!SI And Rei's mMIer fIlmS out to be areol animail/n fact
Rei never brows what animol he's going to tum into next!
Rei's latest training mission tokes him to an island porodise complete with
coral reefs, fluorescent fish, and pristine beochesI1here he bt!IIiMds "". .
fisherman with nothing to catch... What is the secret behind the
Logoon of the Vanishing Rsh? And con Rei stop fie
unseen forces threatening to swallow up this tropiaJI
sanctuary forMrn Plus, SHARK A1TACKJ
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