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ENGLISH WORK TEACHER：吴 斐 TESK：诺贝尔物理学奖人物Steven Chu NAME： CLASS： NUMBER： SCORE： 姓名:申勐侃 班级：政法干警（2）班 学号：2009281061138 Published: Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009 From: Time Webside： /time/world/article/0,8599,1916078-1,00.html Can Steven Chu Win the Fight Over Global Warming? What the U.S. and China do over the next decade, declared Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize – winning physicist who is leading President Obamas push for a clean-energy economy, will determine the fate of the world. Chu had gone to Beijings Tsinghua University, the MIT of China, to make his half-apocalyptic, half-optimistic pitch about climate change. In his nerdy professor style and referring to Milankovitch cycles and the albedo effect as well as melting glaciers and rising seas, Chu methodically explained that the science is clear, that were boiling the planet — but also that science can save us, that we can innovate our way to sustainability. He acknowledged that the developed nations that made the mess cant tell the developing world not to develop, but he also warned that China is on track to emit more carbon in the next three decades than the U.S. has emitted in its history; that business as usual would intensify floods, droughts and heat waves in both countries; that greenhouse gases respect no borders. This earth, he concluded, is the only one weve got; it would be illogical and immoral to fry it. Science has unambiguously shown that were altering the destiny of our planet, he said. Is this the legacy we want to leave our children and grandchildren? (Read The Global Warming Survival Guide.) It was a tough message to deliver to the Chinese — basically, Do as we say, not as we did — but its hard to imagine a more credible messenger. Its not just that Chu is a Chinese American whose parents both graduated from Tsinghua before attending the real MIT or that hes the most qualified leader ever at the Department of Energy (DOE) — which is a bit lik