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An environmentalist is talking about a global warming, he says:
So far we have raised the temperature of the earth about 1degree. We are trapping about
three-quarters of a watt of extra solar energy per square meter of the earth’s surface.
These numbers are not huge, and we wouldn’t have thought twenty years ago that they
would lead to huge results, but the earth was more finely balanced than we realized.
Does it mean that the earth in the past was much more finely balanced than they realized, or does he imply by saying that that it is generally more finely balanced (even today) than they realized?
An environmentalist is talking about a global warming, he says:
So far we have raised the temperature of the earth about 1degree. We are trapping about
three-quarters of a watt of extra solar energy per square meter of the earth’s surface.
These numbers are not huge, and we wouldn’t have thought twenty years ago that they
would lead to huge results, but the earth was more finely balanced than we realized.
Does it mean that the earth in the past was much more finely balanced than they realized, or does he imply by saying that that it is generally more finely balanced (even today) than they realized?
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Newguest Does it mean that the earth in the past was much more finely balanced than they realized, or does he imply by saying that that it is generally more finely balanced (even today) than they realized? Either could be true; it really depends on what the speaker's opinion is on the current stability of our planet.
- Newguest Does it mean that the earth in the past was much more finely balanced than they realized, or does he imply by saying that that it is generally more finely balanced (even today) than they realized?
- Either could be true; it really depends on what the speaker's opinion is on the current stability of our planet.
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NewguestDoes it mean that the earth in the past was much more finely balanced than they realized, or does he imply by saying that that it is generally more finely balanced (even today) than they realized?Either could be true; it really depends on what the speaker's opinion is on the current stability of our planet.
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