19. What could happen as a result of a 5°F increase in average global temperatur

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19. What could happen as a result of a 5°F increase in average global temperature? 20. What happened when the glaciers from the last ice age melted and poured into the north Atlantic Ocean? What could happen in the future if the Greenland ice cap were to do the same thing? 21. According to the movie, what country is the worst contributor to global warming? 22. How many new diseases have emerged in the past quarter century? 23. What is the second of the two ‘canaries in the coal mine’? What is its ‘alarm bell’ for global warming? 24. What effect does the melting of floating sea-based ice have on land-based ice? 25. What is believed would happen to coastal regions throughout the world if Greenland’s ice were to melt? How many people would this effect? 26. What has happened to Earth’s population in the last 60 years? What is expected to happen to population by 2050? 27. What does Gore mean by “Old Habits + New Technology = Dramatically Altered Consequences”? What example does he use to explain this? III. Answer the following questions using information from Part III of the movie: 28. What percentage does the United States contribute to global warming? How do our emissions compare to other regions of the world? 29. In the study of scientific articles on global warming, what percentage was found to disagree with consensus on global warming? 30. Why does Gore believe the choice between the economy (“gold bars”) and the Earth is a false choice? 31. How do mileage standards for cars in the United States compare to mileage standards for cars in other parts of the world? 32. What are two technologies Gore suggests we can use to decrease carbon emissions? 33. Who are the only two nations in the world who did not ratified the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions? 34. What are three examples of the United States taking and solving difficult problems in the past? 35. What idea is Gore hoping to get across by quoting Carl Sagan’s famous “pale blue dot” statement? IV. Answer the following questions about global warming using ideas from the movie: 36. What are three suggestions made by the movie to help people reduce their carbon emissions? 37. How does Gore relate his family’s tobacco farm and the death of his sister due to smoking to the situation we now face as a society with global warming? 38. Why do you think American politicians have avoided taking on the issue of global warming for so many years? 39. Why do you think energy companies and politicians have purposely tried to introduce doubt and disagreement into reporting on global warming? 40. Overall, what did you think of the movie? Do you think it was worthwhile to watch in class

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19- a) The inundation of coastal cities.

b) increasing risk of food productivity

c) unprecedented heat waves in many regions especially in tropic region

20- If the last ice melt means high amount of sea level rise, huge volume of glaciers melt will cause the great flood in cosatal area. Last ice melt means every land will be cover with sea water

21- China and United State

22- Almost 30 disease.

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