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The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it __62__ our kids. AI Gore famously 63 how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood Florida, New York. Holland, and Shanghai, __64__ the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen, __65__ that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that. When __66__ with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely __67__ is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change. This __68__ is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying __69__ about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good. We focus, __70__ , on global warming’s impact on malaria (疟疾) - which will put slightly more people at __71__ in 100 years - instead of tackling the half a billion people __72__ from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that arc much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be. __73__ also wears out the public’s willingness to tackle global warming. If the planet is __74__ people wonder, why do anything A record 54% of American voters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A __75__ of people now believe - incorrectly - that global warming is not even caused by humans. But the __76__ cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the unnecessary alarm that it causes - particularly __77__ children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal __78__ from global warming. The newspaper also reported that parents are __79__ "productive" outlets for their eight-year-olds’ obsessions (忧心忡忡) with dying polar bears. They might be better off educating them and letting them know that, contrary __80__ common belief, the global polar bear population has doubled and perhaps even quadrupled (成为四倍) over the past half-century, to about 22000. __81__ diminishing - and eventually disappearing - summer Arctic ice, polar bears will not become extinct.

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