2023年高考英语外刊时文精读专题03看到空中的碳足迹.pdf

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读专题03看到空中的碳足迹--第1页 2023 年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (3) Carbon emissions 碳排放 Seeing footprints in the air 看到空中的碳足迹 主题语境：人与自然 主题语境内容：环境保护 【外刊原文 】 （斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟 记 。） Chris Jones of the University of California, Berkeley, was on a river in the Amazon rainforest when he put the finishing touches on the world’s first online household carbon calculator(计算器). That was in 2005. He hoped that, if he could show people how much greenhouse gas was associated with daily activities—driving the car, heating the house—they might change their behaviour and contribute in some small measure to saving the Amazon. Seventeen years later, trackers are providing a wealth of often-neglected information about the carbon emissions of everyday life. They provide local and micro data which usefully supplement the global findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Trackers work by asking users to answer questions such as: how many miles a year do you drive; how much is your annual household electricity bill; how often do you eat meat? They then calculate a personal or household estimate of emissions of carbon-dioxide equivalent (CO2e，二氧化碳 当量排放量) per year. Alex Beale, a climate blogger in Atlanta who has studied them, reckons there are dozens of household carbon trackers and hundreds of specialist ones, including those which calculate emissions from food or other industries, such as a new one from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) to track emissions from shipping. For individuals, reckons