Global warming and hurricanes: is there a link?
Multiple-choice exercise
Watch the video and choose the correct answer for each question.
After the latest string of hurricanes..........
- American scientists are sure global warming makes them bigger.
- some scientists are sure they've found a trend to explain it all.
- some American scientists blame storms for global warming.
Professor Peter Webster and other scientists claim that .........
- the warmer the sea water, the stronger the storms are.
- the ferocity of storms can be explained by several factors.
- hurricanes should be studied by scientists from all over the world.
Some scientific journals have published that ..........
- storm measurements aren't reliable enough to come to conclusions.
- hurricanes lasting longer are a consequence of the higher temperature of ocean water
- hurricane watchers don't rely on the evidence given from storm measurements.
In the last ten years America has suffered the effects of many hurricanes but in the 40's ..........
- not so many hurricanes hit the country.
- there were more hurricanes and stronger.
- there were stronger huricanes but not so many.
One computer model predicts that over the next eighty years ..........
- many more hurricanes will hit the American coasts.
- hurricanes are expected to become faster.
- natural cycles will increase by 6%.
Many people are in favour of investigating the link between global warming and hurricanes because ..........
- indisputable proof is needed urgently.
- there's a new need to build more and more by the water.
- the consequences might be disastrous on the coast.