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[简答题] In the atmosphere, carbon dioxide acts rather like a one-way mirror — the glass in the roof of a greenhouse which allows the sun’’s rays to enter but prevents the heat from escaping. According to a weather expert’’s prediction, the atmosphere will be 3°C warmer in the year 2050 than it is today, if man continues to burn fuels at the present rate. If this warming up took place, the ice caps in the poles would begin to melt, thus raising sea level several meters and severely flooding coastal cities. Also, the increase in atmospheric temperature would lead to great changes in the climate of the northern hemisphere, possibly resulting in an alteration of the earth’’s chief food growing zones.
The West Antarctic may be affected by only a few degrees of warming: in other words, by a warming on the scale that will possibly take place in the next fifty years from the burning of fuels.
Satellite pictures show that large areas of Antarctic ice are already disappearing. The evidence