Below are two paragraphs from essays on climate change, one written with high level of modality and the other with a lesser level.
1.Today one of the hottest topics around the globe is “Climate Change”, which is threatening our life on Earth. Climate change refers to the adverse change in the environment and its impacts on the living organisms on Earth. The climate of Earth has become warmer over the last two million years, for which global warming is responsible. The absurd increase in the atmospheric temperature leads to various drastic changes in the Earth, for example, season shift. Deforestation, the burning of fossil fuels, and other human activities are the most important reasons for global warming, which causes a variation in the climate.
An extract from an essay at https://www.aplustopper.com/climate-change-essay downloaded 6th January, 2021
2.While any individual extreme event cannot be causally linked to climate change, there could be a higher probability of more severe extreme events in the future. There are several potential scenarios in which we may expect more heating, less cooling, and less fluctuations between the extremes with different forms of distributional shifts in climatic conditions, all having the same change in the mean temperature. For example, climate change may result in increased precipitations in Northern America in the form of more droughts and more flooding events. These differential changes in the distribution of climatic conditions may have a subtle impact on agriculture, which could not be identified by studying moment variables such as the mean and the variance of temperatures or precipitations.
An extract from an essay at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jm3k3xs, downloaded 6th January, 2021.
Which paragraph has the lower level of modality, the more qualification about its statements – 1 or 2?
(Identify the modal terms that qualify statements in this paragraph by hovering over them.)