5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 3

5)*The 11 hottest years on record have occurred since 1993 with five hottest consecutive years, 1991 to 1995. However the hottest year has been 1998 according to the records.

*The Dutch are creating a plan to reduce emissions by 80 percent over the next 40 years. Germany is contemplating 50 percent cuts in the future. Britain announced it would cut emissions by 21 percent below 1990 levels in the next 10 years.

*CEO of British Petroleum-Amoco announced that it is prepared to do $1 billion a year in solar commerce by the decade's end.

*"Ford and Daimler-Chrysler, together with Ballard Power Corporation, have entered $1 billion joint venture to produce fuel-cell-powered cars in the next three years.

*During the 1980s, the insurance industry lost an average of $2 billion a year to damages from droughts, floods, storm surges, sea level raise, and other extreme weather events.

4)*Has the United States taken any decision about how to reduce the gas emissions?

*Has any other big company of automobiles made any contribution for the problem?

*Since 1998 has there been any other year hotter that that?

*How did the insurance companies lose that big quantity of money?

3)*forum: a medium.

*Discrepancy: inconsistency.

*Hemorrhage: internal bleeding.

*Concern: apprehension.

2) Vocabulary Word: in page number 23, paragraph number 3, last sentence, the writer has used the word havoc which comes from one of our vocabulary words, in lesson number 12.

*Propaganda/Publicity: at this point of the book, the writer has made much publicity to many different companies, such as Texaco, Ford, Toyota, CEO, etc.

1)*In this part of the reading, the author has started to explain the consequences that the global warming has brought to many different companies around the world, for instance, insurance companies, car companies, and fuel producer companies. However, the author has also mentioned the different types of measurement that many countries have already begun to put on practice. Those countries are Netherlands, Germany, and Britain.