This would be a great advantage because, as most scientists agree, burning fossil fuels is the main cause of environmental problems such as acid rain and global warming.

诚如大多数科学家所言，利用好太阳能相当有益，燃烧化石燃料是导致酸雨和全球变暖等环境问题的首要因素。

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Severe respiratory problems can result in anyone exposed to the smoke and burning chemical particles that rain down over an area the size of a football pitch.

烟雾弥漫，燃烧着的化学颗粒大量落下，所涉及的区域几近一个足球场大小；暴露其中，任何人的呼吸系统都可能遭遇严重问题。

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Carbon dioxide is continually entering the air as a result of burning and breathing, but it is also continually leaving the air by uniting with the rain, the oceans, rocks.

二氧化碳由于燃烧和呼吸连续不断地进入空气中，但它通过与雨水、海洋、岩石和土壤结合又不断地离开空气。

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Most of the data comes from the industrialized world. Not surprisingly, burning fossil fuels for transportation and electrical generation top the list for their contributions to climate change, acid rain and toxic pollution.

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The notion of modifying the weather dates back at least to the eighteen-thirties, when the American meteorologist James Pollard Espy became known as the Storm King, for his (prescient but widely ridiculed) proposals to stimulate rain by selectively burning forests.

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