雅思阅读材料：全球变暖问题雅思阅读材料：全球变暖问题.docx

智课网IELTS备考资料雅思阅读材料：全球变暖问题 摘要： 为了帮助考生们更好地复习雅思考试，小马过河网雅思频道为各位考生整理了雅思阅读材料：全球变暖问题，供考生们参考使用，更多雅思词汇辅导请继续关注小马过河网雅思频道。 近日来，随着温室效应的加剧，地球两极的温度也在逐年升高，下面这篇 雅思 阅读材料就是关于全球变暖以及温室效应这个环境问题的，是非常不错的 雅思阅读 材料。下面是详细内容，供大家参考，希望给大家带来帮助。 推荐雅思阅读方法：首先快速阅读全文，掌握文章大意，提高阅读速度;再进行精读训练，学习其中的词汇和语言的用法。 A Canary in the Coal Mine The Arctic seems to be getting warmer. So what? A. “Climate change in the Arctic is a reality now!” So insists Robert Corell, an oceanographer with the American Meteorological Society. Wild-eyed proclamations are all too common when it comes to global warming, but in this case his assertion seems well founded. B. At first sight, the ACIA’s (American Construction Inspectors Association) report’s conclusions are not so surprising. After all, scientists have long suspected that several factors lead to greater temperature swings at the poles than elsewhere on the planet. One is albedo — the posh scientific name for how much sunlight is absorbed by a planet’s surface, and how much is reflected. Most of the Polar Regions are covered in snow and ice, which are much more reflective than soil or ocean. If that snow melts, the exposure of dark earth (which absorbs heat) acts as a feedback loop that accelerates warming. A second factor that makes the poles special is that the atmosphere is thinner there than at the equator, and so less energy is required to warm it up. A third factor is that less solar energy is lost in evaporation at the frigid poles than in the steamy tropics. C. And yet the language of this week’s report is still eye-catching: “the Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on Earth.” The last authoritative assessment of the topic was done by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001. That report made headlines by predicting a rise in sea level of between 10cm (four inches) and 90cm, and a temperature rise of between 1.4°C and 5.8°C over this century. However, its authors did not feel conf