The Paris Climate Agreement (1) to limit global temperature rise to "well below 2 degrees Celsius." "But really nobody—and certainly not the United States—has laid out the plan to get there." Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at Duke University. "So we wanted to model, what would be the (2) of actually putting into place policies that would get us to a level we've pledged to reach?"
Shindell and his colleagues forecast that, to stay within two degrees C, we'd have to electrify nearly every car in the nation. And we'd have to get more than half our power from (3) . And if we do all that? In addition to keeping warming in check, the researchers estimate that we'd avoid nearly 300,000 (4) deaths due to air pollution in the U.S., by 2030.
And they say the health-related financial benefits of that clean energy (5) —amounting to $250 billion dollars over the next 15 years—would likely (6) the cost of implementing all that new technology. The analysis appears in the journal Nature Climate Change. [Drew T. Shindell et al, Climate and health impacts of U.S. emissions reductions consistent with 2 degrees C]
Big caveat: a lot of (7) these days don't think on 15-year time scales. They're looking only as far as the next election. "Right, but you start putting in these policies and you know you see the (8) for public health the same year the policies start to go into place. There's no lag time. Air quality is something that, unlike climate, doesn't take decades. Air quality is (9) to what came out of a coal plant or a vehicle tailpipe last week, not last year." Meaning cutting carbon pollution might have real impacts on the nation's health and wealth almost (10) for us…and not just for our children's children.
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上期答案
1. invisible
2. thousandth
3. struggled
4. probes
5. unprecedented
6. Identifying
7. witness
8. Fortunately
9. distinguished
10. gravitational