Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.
You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Being Objective on Climate Change
week，Craig Rucker,a climate-change skeptic and the executive director of a nonprofit organization called the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow(CFACT)，tweeted a quotation supposedly taken from a 1922 edition of the Washington Post：“Within a few years it is predicted due to ice melt the sea will rise&make most coastal cities uninhabitable.”The intent，of course，was to poke fun at current headlines about climate change.
er’s organization is a member ofthe Cooler Heads Coalition，an umbrella organization operated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute，a nonprofit that prides itself on its opposition to environmental er himself is part of a network of bloggers，op-cd writers，and policy-shop executives who argue that climate change is either a hoax or all example of left-wing acing old newspaper clips is one of their favorite also make substantive arguments about climate policy,but the sniping may be more e is no stronger rhetorical tool than ridicule.
this case，Ruckcr’s ridicule seems r spending a few minutes poking around online，1 was able to find both the Washington Post article and the longer SourCe material that it came from—a weather report issued by the ul in Bergen，Norway,and sent to the State Department on october 1 0，1 report didn’t say anything about coasts being isn’t ntists wete smart back then，too,and they knew that melting sea ice wouldn’t appreciably raise sea more than a melting ice cube raises the level of water in a glass.
er ultimately corrected his tweet once commenters pointed out the ugh Twitter,he informed me that he had taken the line from a Washington Times op—ed by Richard Rahn，a senior fellow at the Cato I contacted Rahn’s office.a press representative acknowledged that Rahn had copied the quote from other bloggers and columnists;the fabricated sentence appears in articles at and fabricated line seems to have been inserted around the original article has been circulating online since 2007.
E. The statement about rising sea levels aside，1 922 really was a strange period in the Svalbard area described by the weather islands lie halfway between Norway and the North Pole,at a latitude that puts them several hundred miles farther north than Barrow,alaska.“The Arctic seems to be warming up.”the report August of that year,a geologist near the island of Spitsbergen sailed as far north as eighty-one minutes in ice-free was highly previous several summers had likewise been populations had moved farther north，and formerly unseen stretches of coast were now accessible.
are we to take from this historical evidence?A central tenet for Rucker and his colleagues is mat today’s retreat。warming surface temperatures，and similar observations are short-lived anomalies of a kind that often happened in the past—and that overzealous scientists and gullible media are quick to drum up crises where none rite examples include numerous newspaper articles from the nties that predicted the advent of a new ice 's possible to find articles from nearly every decade of the past century that seem to imply information about the climate that turned out to be premature or wrong.
1922 article has been quoted repeatedly by Rucker’s comrades-in-arms since its 2007 rebirth in the Washington nearly that long，scientists have been n Schmidt，a climate modeler and the deputy director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies，points out that what was an anomaly in 1922 is now the norm：the waters near Spitsbergen are clear of ice at the end of every important，long-term temperature and sea-ice records indicate that the dramatic sea-ice retreat in the early ties was also occurred locally around svalbard—the unusual conditions didn’t even encompass the whole Norwegian Sea，let alone the rest of the Arctic.
H. 0ver the weekend，after retracting his previous tweet，Rucker posted a link to a blog item about a different one a 1932 New York Times eighty-year-old headline reads，“The Next Great Deluge Forecast By Science：Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of the Seas and Flood the Continents.”That one sounded juicy,and，indeed，this time the text was correct：that really is what the headline ically,the lcad researcher cited in the piece was a German scientist named Alfred Wegener,who has sometimes been considered a hero of climate-change deniers for a completely different ner is known for proposing the phenomenon of continental drift starting around the First Wbrid War,The idea was ridiculed before gaining acceptance in the nineteen-sixties，once
