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Effects of Environmental
Pollution
If pollution continues to increase at
the present rate, formation of aerosols (浮质) in the atmosphere will cause the
onset (开始) of an ice age in about fifty years’ time. This conclusion, reached by
Dr. S.I. Rasool and Dr. S.H. Schneider of the United States Goddard Space Flight
Centre, answers the apparently conflicting questions of whether an increase in
the carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) content of the atmosphere will cause the Earth to warm
up or increasing the aerosol content will cause it to cool down. The Americans
have shown conclusively that the aerosol question is dominant.
Two specters haunting conservationists have been the prospect that environmental
pollution might lead to the planet’s becoming unbearably hot or cold. One of
these ghosts has now been laid. Because it seems that even an increase in the
amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to eight times its present value will
produce an increase in temperature of only 2℃, which would take place over
several thousand years. But the other problem now looms larger than
ever.
Aerosols are collections of small liquid or solid
particles dispersed in air or some other medium. The particles are all so tiny
that each is composed of only a few hundred atoms. Because of this they can
float in the air for a very long time. Perhaps the most commonly experienced
aerosol is industrial smog (烟雾) of the kind that plagued London in the 1950s and
is an even greater problem in Los Angeles today. These collections of aerosols
reflect the Sun’s heat and thereby cause the Earth to cool.
Dr.
Rasool and Dr. Schneider have calculated the exact effect of a dust aerosol
layer just above the Earth’s surface in the temperature of the planet. As the
layer builds up, the present delicate balance between the amount of heat
absorbed from the Sun and the amount radiated from the Earth is disturbed. The
aerosol layer not only reflects much of the Sun’s light but also transmits the
infrared (红外线的) radiation from below. So, while the heat input to the surface
drops, the loss of heat remains high until the planet cools to a new balanced
state.
Within fifty years, if no steps are taken to stop the
spread of aerosols in the atmosphere, a cooling of the Earth by as much as 3.5℃
seems inevitable. If that lasts for only a few years it would start another ice
age, and because the growing ice caps at each pole would themselves reflect much
of the Sun’s radiation it would probably continue to develop even if the aerosol
layer were destroyed.
The only bright spot in this gloomy
forecast lies in the hope expressed by Dr. Rasool and Dr. Schneider that nuclear
power may replace fossil fuels in time to prevent the aerosol content of the
atmosphere from becoming critical.The word "specters" in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to
______.
A. pollution.
B. carbon dioxide
C. aerosols
D. ghosts