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10. Read both news stories and carry out the instructions below. session 5

greenhouse
Publication 1. gas (n.): gas
invernadero
livestock (n.):
ganado

CLIMATE CHANGE, PROBLEM CAUSED
BY HUMAN ACTIVITY

Thursday January 4th, 2018 Reading news. Implicit information

■ In 10 years’ time, we will
run out of natural resources if
lifestyle changes are not made,
according to scientists.
Climate change affects us all,
since it impacts animal and plant
habitats, leading them
to extinction. “risk of extreme heat has
multiplied due to the effects of
During the last century, global human activity on Earth.”
temperatures have risen by
0.6 ºC. Members of the scientific One of the solutions in the
community agree that this is due fight against climate change is
to the growing concentration reducing the use of fossil fuels.
of greenhouse gas emissions
produced by human activity,
which keep heat trapped under
the atmosphere.

Human activity includes the
effects of aerosols, coal, gas
and oil burning, deforestation in
tropical rainforests and livestock
production. All of them have an
impact on global warming.

According to Stefan Rahmstorf,
who was in charge of research
on climate change in the
Postdam Institute in Germany,

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