What effect will climate change have?

5.Our research on climate change focuses on the environment (effect)

Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Each word may be used only once. attitudes boundaries collective confident differences distant dramatically links prospects relatively sensitive similarly simply sober subtle People who have directly experienced flooding are more likely to be worried about climate change and willing to adopt energy-saving behavior, according to a new study based on a recent survey of 1,822 individuals across the United Kingdom. The new study found that those who report experience of flooding express more concern over climate change, see it as less uncertain, and feel more ①__________ that their actions will have an effect on climate change. Importantly, these perceptual (认知的) ②__________ also translate into a greater willingness to save energy to mitigate climate change. Previous psychological research suggests that many people are relatively unconcerned about climate change because they perceive it as a ③________ issue that will not directly affect them. But the authors of the new study say their results suggest that drawing ④_____ between local weather events and climate change is likely to be a useful strategy for increasing concern and action. An earlier study conducted after major U.K. floods in 1998 and 2000 found ⑤_________ similar levels of concern in those directly affected by flooding and those who did not have that experience. But given that ⑥________ severe flooding events struck England since 2003, the British research team decided to revisit the issue. Elke Weber — a professor of business and psychology at Columbia University — called the findings surprising and important. Following the failed climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, the ⑦_________ for sufficient public concern about climate change and political will to reduce carbon emissions have seemed dim. However, recent events in Tunisia (突尼斯), Egypt and other countries have shown that increases in the perceived effectiveness of individual and ⑧_________ action can change ⑨________ and behaviors quickly and ⑩___________. The new study’s findings, Weber added, provide a glimmer of hope that similar ‘tipping point’ dynamics might exist in the domain of climate change.

The text “Climate Change: No Eden, No Apocalypse” suggests that climate change will bring us ultimate destruction, but also that we can somehow “stop” climate change to take us back to some fantasy world of perfection.（ ）

Climate change is such a big problem that we can do nothing to make a difference.