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Too Little for Global Warming

Oil and gas will run out too fast for doomsday global warming scenarios to materialize, according to a controversial new analysis presented this week at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. The authors warn that all the fuel will be burnt before there is enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to realize predictions of melting ice caps and searing temperatures. Defending their predictions, scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say they considered a range of estimates of oil and gas reserves, and point out that coal-burning could easily make up the shortfall. But all agree that burning coal would be even worse for the planet.
The IPCC’s predictions of global meltdown pushed forward the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an agreement obliging signatory nations to cut CO₂ emissions. The IPCC considered a range of future scenarios, from unlimited burning of fossil-f
A. The coal reserves are big enough.
B. All the fuel will be burnt before there is enough carbon dioxide.
C. Coal-burning could easily make up the shortfall of oil and gas reserves.
D. Oil and gas will run out so fast that Earth’s doomsday will never materialize.

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Oil and gas will run out too fast for doomsday global warming scenarios to materialize, according to a controversial new analysis presented this week at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. The authors warn that all the fuel will be burnt before there is enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to realize predictions of melting ice caps and searing temperatures. Defending their predictions, scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say they considered a range of estimates of oil and gas reserves, and point out that coal-burning could easily make up the shortfall. But all agree that burning coal would be even worse for the planet.
The IPCC’s predictions of global meltdown pushed forward the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an agreement obliging signatory nations to cut CO₂ emissions. The IPCC considered a range of future scenarios, from unlimited burning of fossil-f
A. Fossil fuels.
B. Green fuels.
C. Coal-burning.
D. Nothing.

[单项选择]The 1982 Oil and Gas Act gives power to permit the disposal of assets held by the Corporation, and the Corporation’s statutory monopoly in the supply of gas for fuel purposes so as to permit private companies to compete in this supply（）
A. defers
B. curtails
C. triggers
D. sparks

[简答题]Both oil and natural gas are transported in pipelines which stretch for hundreds of miles from the oil fields to where the materials are to be used. If your city uses natural gas, whenever you turn on a gas burner, you open a pipe whose other end may go down into the ground a thousand miles or more away.

[填空题]Often associated with crude oil, natural gas is principally made up of_______ and other hydrocarbon gases.

[单项选择]Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)to help secure America’s energy future President Bush certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR’s oil would help ease California’s electricity crisis and provide a major boost to the country’s energy independence. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth, with the last government survey, conducted in 1998, projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels.
The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two to three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia. Sounds good. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall(意外之才) in tax revenues, royalties (开采权使用费)and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal
A. A．3) Tap the oil there more slowly and carefully.B. Think it over how to protect the environment there.C. Never expect ANWR to supply enough oil for the country in the near future.D. Don’t expect too optimistic profit and gain.