1. What is the main point of this article?

- The main point of this article is about the reason and damages cause from global warming.

2. List four vocabulary words that you do not recognize or understand, lookup the definitions, write them out using your own words.

- 4 vocabulary words:

· Industrial Revolution: from the 18th to the 19th century, major changed of major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transport, and technology, started from The United Kingdom.

· Variation: different, to be adapt

· Skeptics: to be doubt, unbelief

· Definitive: conclusive, final, to be determinate

3. What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?

- Weather is how we are feeling right now, hot and cold, humid or dry; and weather is a short amount of time, could be a minute until a week variation.

- Climate is the weather information that described the variation of weather at given places; and climate is a large amount of time of a place, could be ten years or more.

4. What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”?

- Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan, cause flooding and killing more than 1500 peoples and uprooting millions.

- In Russia, recording braking heat wave along with drought destroying millions of acres of wheat and killed dozens.

- At US, flooding battered New England => Tennessee => Arkansas => Oklahoma, while record break heat wave all of the entire eastern part of US.

5. What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”?

- I did have an extreme weather experience, and it was last summer, when I was at my god- parents’ house at Hanoi. It wasn’t huge and full of death and sadness like at Haiti, but it was a first and the only experience I had got though my life. There was a hurricane at the midnight, about 2h o’clock. The rain was very heavy and lengthy. Next morning, about 5 am, everybody woke up and bailed water out because our house was flooded, and the water raised 20 centimeters from the floor and about haft meter from the ground outside.

6. What does the word “perception” mean?

Perception: notice, understand, reflect, as a moral or lesson

7. What is your “perception” of global climate change?

- With me, global climate change or global warming cause lots of damages to the human, but it was human fault because we are also a part of element that create global warming. So now, we must start to save the planet, what we are standing on, if we want to service and for our decedents to have a chance to be born, live and enjoy their life as a human. And there are many ways to do that, maybe it doesn’t need to be a huge things, but you can start to learn to recycle stuff, to save the material that we all took from the earth. It is time to give back what you take from the Mother Nature, as she already sent you a message. Do not ignore it, be a hero!