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Climate scientists predict that there is going to be significant variations in the regional climatic changes in the next century.

A. there is going to be significant variations in the regional climatic changes

B. the regional climatic changes is going to vary significantly

C. there are going to be significant variations in the regional climatic changes

D. significant variations in the regional climatic changes will occur

E. the regional climatic changes will vary significantly

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What is the problem with answer choice C

Not going into too many details why C is wrong. A very strong reason to eliminate A and C is usage of there. There is used to refer to some place. We don't have a proper antecedent for there.
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Climate scientists predict that there is going to be significant variations in the regional climatic changes in the next century.

A. there IS going to be significant VARIATIONS in the regional climatic changes
S-V error.

B. the regional climatic CHANGES IS going to vary significantly
S-V error.

C. there are going to be significant variations in the regional climatic changes
Usage of ‘there are’ , ‘going to be’ makes it Wordy construction.
IMO, ‘going to be’ is incorrect here. Rather, it can simply be written as ‘Scientists predict that X will happen’.

D. significant variations in the regional climatic changes will occur
Wordy construction

E. the regional climatic changes will vary significantly - Correct.
Adverbial modifier ‘significantly’ correctly modifies the verb ‘vary’.

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It doesn't seem like there are many strong reasons to eliminate C or D. Sure E is concise, but simply "wordy" shouldn't be enough to eliminate any answer choice IMO.
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