Question

Refer to the NASA article "Responding to Climate Change."

Part A

Which inference can be made from the text?

Responses

Climate change presents some potential beneficial opportunities.

The destruction of habitat is inevitable.

Animals play a part in climate change.

Climate change will have long-lasting effects on our environment.

Question 2
Part B - Points depend on a correct response in Part A.

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer in Part A?

Responses

"The last time levels were that high was about three to five million years ago, during the Pliocene Epoch."

"That will be determined by how our emissions continue and also exactly how our climate system responds to those emissions."

"So even if we stopped emitting all greenhouse gases today, global warming and climate change will continue to affect future generations."

"The goal is to reduce our vulnerability to the harmful effects of climate change (like sea-level encroachment, more intense extreme weather events or food insecurity)."