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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by rising sea levels. Well, at least our Iowa

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branch will soon be beachfront property.

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The authors of both passages would agree that... what?

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The authors of our two passages don't agree on many things—including the existence of

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global warming. Author 1 thinks man-made global warming is a dangerous reality threatening

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to devour the Earth.

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Author 2 thinks it's no big deal.

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Having fixed both authors' opinions firmly in our minds, we can now do some eliminating.

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Author 1 would be cool with choices (B) and (D), since they both support the idea that

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climate change is man-made.

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Of course, Author 2 would have a thing or two to say about either choice, so both (B)

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and (D) are off the table.

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Choice (A) falls on Author 2's side of the fence...

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Which, of course, tells us that Author 1 would hate it. Choice (A) is off the list.

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Author 2 would love choice (C). He spends the whole first paragraph of his article talking

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about how the government should butt out.

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But that means...do we even need to say it?... Author 1 would loathe it.

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Both authors do agree that the government would take Drastic Measures if officials accepted

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global warming as a real problem.

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Based on the authors' statements in the third paragraph of Passage 1 and the first paragraph

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of Passage 2, we know that (E) is the one thing on which our authors can agree.

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Well, that and their mutual hatred of each other.

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