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After a decades-long debate over the 1. ________ and potential impact of global warming, a series of studies by 2,500 scientists from 130 countries, part of the United Nations-sponsored Inter­governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has finally laid the issue to rest. In February 2007 the IPCC provided over­whelming scientific evidence that the use of 2. ________________ like coal, oil and natural gas 3. ________billions of tonnes of heat-trap­ping 4.________ gases into the atmo­sphere every year, causing air, ground and ocean temperatures around the world to 5. ________ at an alarming rate.

Countries can reduce harmful 6. ________ and halt warming, noted IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri in April, by investing in cleaner "green" 7. ________ and changing consumer habits. But it is too late to 8. ________ climate change from having sometimes severe impacts on the planet, and "it is the poorest of the poor in the world, and this includes poor peo­ple even in prosperous societies, who 9. ________ to be the worst hit."

/Adapted from Africa Renewal. UN Department of Public Information. Vol.21 №2. July 2007/

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