thevillainintheatmosphereisaacasimov

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sic food supply… 2. In all likelihood, it will continue to rise and do so at a greater rate… 3. Where there are…, the water will advance steadily, forcing people to … 4. Florida will disappear beneath the waves, as will much of the British Isles… 5. And all because of carbon dioxide. 6. It begins with the sunlight, to which … Text interpretation 7. Sunlight, striking the top of the atmosphere… 8. …the Earth cools by radiating heat into space in the form of infrared radiation. 9. …the atmosphere is not quite as transparent to infrared radiation as it is to visible light. dioxide in particular tends to block such radiation. heat is lost… than would be lost if carbon dioxide were not present in the atmosphere. the small quantity of that gas present, the Earth would be distinctly cooler… Text interpretation 13. …that is where the villainy es in. 14. Each year since, the concentration has crept upward and it now stands at … 15. It is estimated that by 2020 the concentration will be nearly twice what it is now. 16. Something like 90 percent of the ice… 17. To blame are two factors. 18. …new sources of fuel that do not involve the production of carbon dioxide. Word family  Bad egg, wicked, toxin, inessential, essence, conversion, exchange, substance, release, seeming, selfevident, hidden, latent, possibility, high land, proportion, portion, unsteady, instable, outland, spill, epidemic, fashionable, struct。