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Practice Reading: Reading and Writing Fill in the Blanks ID: #965 Global Heating
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Three  degrees  does  not  sound  like  much  but  it    a  rise  in  temperature  compatible  with  the  global  heating  that  occurred  between  the  last  ice  age,  some  15,000  years  ago,  and  the  warmth  of  the  eighteenth  century.  When  Earth  was  cold,  giant  glaciers  sometimes  extended  from  the  polar-regions  as  far  south  as  St  Louis  in  the  US  and  the  Alps  in  Europe.  Later  this  century  when  it  is  three  degree  hotter  glaciers  everywhere  will  be  melting  in  a  climate  of  often    heat  and  drought,  punctuated  with  storms  and  floods.  The    for  humanity  could  be  truly  horrific;  if  we  fail  to  act  swiftly,  the  full  impact  of  global  heating  could  cull  us  along  with  vast  populations  of  the  plant  and  animals  with  whom  we  share  Earth.  In  a  worst  case  scenario,  there  might  -  in  the  22nd  century  -  be  only  a  remnant  of  humanity  eking  out  a    existence  in  the  polar-regions  and  the  few  remaining  oases  left  on  a  hot  and  arid  Earth.

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