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Don’t Say It’s Global Warming A)As Texas endures the slow, agonizing death of our entire agricultural sector by drought, a check
Don’t Say It’s Global Warming A)As Texas endures the slow, agonizing death of our entire agricultural sector by drought, a check
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2014-12-31
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问题
Don’t Say It’s Global Warming
A)As Texas endures the slow, agonizing death of our entire agricultural sector by drought, a check of our media and political leaders shows we are also suffering from a bizarre silence on a topic that could be described as "the cause that dare not speak its name".
B)Local newspapers have responded heroically to the heat wave that has now killed more than 120 Texans, unleashing a torrent of efforts to help those most in peril. The one topic they have not addressed is: Why is this happening?
C)Of the few articles on the subject, all are limited to the answer "El Nino", which is half right. According to climatologists, this is an El Nino drought: El Nino shifted the jet stream just enough to hold the high that normally sits over the Rockies in the summertime east over Texas, so we are not getting the clouds and cooling that normally give us some relief. But the other half of the answer, global warming, has gotten little or no attention.
D)A recent Dallas Morning News article gives the flavor of what little coverage global warming has gotten: "What did skies over Texas and a Washington debate about global warming share this week ? An unusual amout of hot air, Say experts on both meteorology and politics." Heh-heh.
E)The media are doing so poorly on this issue that it’ s an embarrassment to the profession, and we are being hoisted partly by the petard of our infamous among scientists. It is not.
F)What we mistake for a "debate" is actually a public relations campaign by the American Petroleum Institute, which has recruited and funded a few scientists who question the entire phenomenon. They, in turn, are given equal weight by the media, as though they were precisely as objective as the 2500 scientists who work with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
G)According to USA Today, when 14 energy industry lobbyists gathered in April to work out the details of a $6 million lobbying plan on global warming, they targeted Congress, the news media, the public and schoolchildren. "Informing teacher/students about uncertainties in climate science will begin to erect a barrier against further efforts to impose Kyoto-like measure in the future," says a memo obtained by the National Environmental Trust.
H)The notion that the IPCC is some group of fear-mongering enviros is easily disproved by study of any of its cautious work or the testimony of its chairman, Robert T. Watson. On the other hand, the API’ s notorious PR campaign is designed, in the words of its own strategy documents, to "reposition global warming as theory rather than fact."
I)In addition, a number of conservative think tanks have been churning out dubious studies allegedly proving that doing much of anything about global warming will cost each and every citizen a small fortune and "radically" affect all our lives. These studies have been given solemn coverage by the press.
J)Among the most important developments this year is the formation of a coalition of major companies—including Sun Co., 3M, British Petroleum, Lockheed, Maytag, United Technologies, Boeing, etc.—that not only accept climate change as a serious threat but also believe that action is necessary and can be taken without economic damage.
K)Meanwhile, the Republican Party of Texas has adopted the flat statement: "We oppose the theory of global warming and the Kyoto Agreement." That certainly takes care of that, as far as Texas Republicans are concerned.
The so-called "debate" was organized by the American Petroleum Institute to further research the phenomenon.
选项
答案
F
解析
题干:这个所谓的“辩论”是由美国石油学会组织的,目的是进一步研究此现象。题干关键词是debate和the American Petroleum Institute。文中F段第一句提到,我们误以为真的“辩论”实际上就是一场由美国石油学会组织的公共关系活动,旨在招募和资助质疑整个现象的科学家。与题干意思一致,故选F。
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