the yahoo news:Gas emissions said at unsafe threshold

(1)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071009/ap_on_sc/climate_change;_ylt=Am0Zc6183wgecf07mu9Co2tvaA8F

(2)Q&A

1. Q: whose recent book is "The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth," made best-seller lists worldwide?
A: Flannery

2. Q: how much carbon dioxide output does Germany currently has per person per year?
A: 11 tons

3. Q: how much carbon dioxide output does America currently has per person per year?
A: 20 tons

4. Q: which countries which have the recent economic boom have helped to accelerate the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
A: China and India

5. Q: what will cause when the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is already above the threshold?
A: that can potentially cause dangerous climate change.

(3) Key words:

1. Greenhouse gas emissions: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

2. Synthesize: combine and form a synthesis

3. Threshold: the level at which sth start to happen

4. Scenario: an outline or synopsis of a play

5. Symposium: meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in
which the participants form an audience and make presentations

6. Accelerate: move faster

7. Delegate: a person appointed or elected to represent others

8. Metabolism: the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals

9. Exacerbate: to make sth worse, especially a disease or problem

10. Assimilation: the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

(4) The news is talk about the greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide. That gas has accelerated at unsafe threshold. That will cause climate change dramatically. The speed of produce the greenhouse gases are out of the scientists expected. US, Germany, China, and India produce many tons greenhouse gas because their harmony economy and industry development.