Answer to Question #318201 in English for nita

Question

Lombardo puts forward the view that the significant rise in the earth’s temperature over the past century is the product of increased levels of atmospheric CO2 caused by greater use of fossil fuels.He maintains that this position is now generally agreed, and that steps should be taken to reduce future warming by restricting the output of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. However, Wong presents a range of counterarguments. She mentions evidence of historical climate change that cannot have been caused by rising levels of CO2, and also discusses the difficulty of obtaining reliable data on temperature changes, as well as other claims that solar activity may affect the amount of cloud cover and hence temperature levels. Such uncertainty, she considers raises doubts about the value of cutting CO2 production.

2.1 Which functional speech variety is used in the above text?

2.2 Give a justification for the answer you indicated in 2.1 above by citing two words or phrases.

Answer 1

Indigenized variety:

Indigenized varieties are spoken mainly as second languages in ex-colonies with multilingual populations. The differences from the standard variety may be linked to English proficiency, or may be part of a range of varieties used to express identity.