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Current Events Semester 3 Final Exam Review

1) Texts ( An Inconvenient Truth 1,2, solutions )
  Study for meaning. Review vocabulary.

2) Essay topic: Your research report. Summarize from memory.

3) Keywords from texts.

Vice President
climate change
global warming
public opinion
scientific fact
controversy
natural phenomena
long-term variation
The Kyoto Protocol
profit
policy
technology
to prevent something
to pressure somebody
to be a pity
the media
to be uncertain

to reflect
carbon dioxide
to absorb
the Northern Hemisphere
drastic
double
triple
to be linked
to be a coincidence
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
glaciers
the Polar Caps
to flood
within 10 years (Kilimanjaro snow disappears)
within 50 to 70 years (North Pole disappears in summer)
10 to 20 feet (water levels may raise)
90% (reflected by ice, absorbed by sea)
40% (polar ice has thinned)
extreme weather events
a warmer ocean (cause)

biodiesel
wind power
solar power
hybrid automobiles
fuel cells
carbon taxes
CSS (carbon capture and storage)