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Our first down the middle report today focuses on a new study by the U.S. government concerning the issue of climate change. A Federal climate assessment¹ has been required by Congress since 1990. The latest one came out Friday. It reportedly involved 13 government agencies, the help of 1,000 people, 300 of them being scientists from inside and outside the government. And it included a number of warnings about what could happen as a result of climate change.

The report says cities could get hotter. Sea levels could rise higher covering land with water. Hurricanes could get more destructive. Wildfires would scorch² more land. Thousands of more people could die every year because of higher temperatures and more widespread diseases. And all of this could cost the U.S. alone hundreds of billions of dollars per year.

A scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric³ Administration says that increasing temperatures world wide quote "can only be explained by human activities." Many scientists blame fossil fuel emissions⁴ for c?ontributing to warmer temperatures. That's a controversial part of the issue of climate change because not everyone agrees with it.

Last month before this report came out, U.S. President Donald Trump⁵ said he thinks something's changing in the climate but that it would change back again and he wasn't convinced that people caused the changes. And the Heartland Institute, a non-profit American think tank that supports skepticism about the human impact on climate change, suggests the new government report is similar to its previous reports except that this one is more exaggerated and less scientific. The government's climate assessment comes out every four years. It doesn't give specific recommendations on how to deal with the issue.

1 assessment   

n.评价；评估；对财产的估价，被估定的金额

参考例句：

• This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
• What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？

2 scorch   

v.烧焦，烤焦；高速疾驶；n.烧焦处，焦痕

参考例句：

• I could not wash away the mark of the scorch.我洗不掉这焦痕。
• This material will scorch easily if it is too near the fire.这种材料如果太靠近炉火很容易烤焦。

3 atmospheric   

adj.大气的，空气的；大气层的；大气所引起的

参考例句：

• Sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation are strongly coupled.海洋表面温度与大气环流是密切相关的。
• Clouds return radiant energy to the surface primarily via the atmospheric window.云主要通过大气窗区向地表辐射能量。

4 emissions   

排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）

参考例句：

• Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
• Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。

5 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。