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Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by green house gasses, Earth’s worst case

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of “silent but deadly.”

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How do the assumptions made by the author of Passage 1 about scientific evidence for

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manmade climate change differ from those made by the author of Passage 2??

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By now we know that the author of Passage 1 believes climate change is a Thing That

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Is Real.

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Line 17, for example, uses the phrase, "clear scientific evidence of manmade global warming."

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This guy is on the environmental team and doesn’t care who knows.

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Knowing this makes it super easy to eliminate choices (B), (D), and (E).

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The author never expresses any doubts about scientific data on global warming, so all

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three of these can be quickly crossed off the list.

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Choices (A) and (C) both recognize how gung-ho Author 1 is about his side of things, so we’ll

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have to consider the second part of the answer, which comments on Author 2’s stance, to

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make our final selection.

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The author of Passage 2 declares that the science behind manmade global warming is wrong,

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wrong, wrong, and is just as gung-ho about his side of things as the first author.

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He makes his point particularly clear in lines 61-64, when he says “People have nothing

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to do with the condition of the polar bears.”

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Now that we’ve reminded ourselves of Author 2’s position, we can easily eliminate choice

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(C), which downplays his doubts. (A) is the correct answer.

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Hold on...we just want to imagine what would happen if these guys met in a dark alley...

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