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2012MBA英语阅读理解：阅读记词 Passage43 1）On the eve of global warming negotiations, scientists from several Western nations are clamoring for a crash program to develop clean energy that would rival the Manhattan Project and the Apollo mission to the moon. 　　2）Writing in Thursday抯 issue of the journal Nature, scientists from North America and Europe predicted that global warming will soon become the environmental equivalent of the Cold War as the world抯 increasing reliance on fossil fuels releases more carbon dioxide and other heat trapping pollutants into the atmosphere. The 11 scientists urged negotiators at environmental talks scheduled to begin Nov.2 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to push for a mobilization of scientific resources to develop alternative forms of energy, such as solar, wind and nuclear power. “Developing and commercializing carbon-free power technologies by the mid 21st century could require efforts, perhaps international, pursued with the urgency of the Manhattan Project or the Apollo space program,” said Martin Hoffert, a physicist at New York University. Only 20% or less of today energy use comes from carbon-free sources. The Nature paper is unusual because it contains broad policy recommendations. Normally, the journal publishes straightforward scientific studies. 　　Last year, governments meeting in Kyoto, Japan, agreed to emission reductions by the United States, Japan, the 15 nation European Union and 21 other industrial nations. The nations are to cut their output of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to 5% below their 1990 levels by 2012. This year, negotiators for 166 nations are meeting to determine how each country will achieve the reduction. 　　To some, rising annual average temperatures in the 1990s amount to early proof that global warming has arrived and that the current treaty won抰 protect nations from climatic upheaval during the 21st century. Some scientists said global warming is inevit5able and no amount of effort-not even a crash