Long TextExercise 21 of 83

Temperatures are now so high at the North Pole that scientists are contemplating radical schemes to avoid catastrophe. Physicist Steven Desch has come up with a novel solution to the problems that now beset the Arctic. He and a team of colleagues from Arizona State University want to replenish the region's shrinking…

• What is the writer's intention in the first paragraph?
• What outcome does the writer suggest in the second paragraph?