Europe has been baking in a record breaking heatwave recently. Experts are pointing to the link between such extreme weather and climate change. BBC Science Correspondent Victoria Gill reports.
The story…
Extreme weather: Is it caused by
climate change?
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heat
Need-to-know language
scorching – very hot
heatwaves – periods of time where it’s hotter than normal
heating up – becoming hotter
drought-resistant – able to survive in long periods of dry weather
baking – being heated to a high temperature
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By what amount does the Paris Climate Agreement aim to limit the rise in global temperature?
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This isn't the first time Lingohack's story has been about climate change! Check out these other great climate change programmes:
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Clothing and the environment: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/lingohack/ep-181226
It is 37 C without mentioning the real feeling of this high temperature, which is much higher.
What it looks strange is that eastern-Europe countries are not affected by heat wave besides eastern-Mediterranean sea countries, and this heat wave was heading north toward Scandinavian countries.
Maybe, there is a plan to warm the northern pole to open a new trade road instead of the classical sea roads we know.
By the way, I'd like to know if the English language has a way to express what Italians call "soffrire il caldo"- I guess "suffering from the heat" hasn't got the same meaning
Even during night hours the air is hot like furnace here in Kuwait
1.5°c
We’ve got to start getting used to extreme climate events. The climate is changing and we might be a cause, but I’m sure that that’s not the only one.
However, it’s really interesting trying to understand how an extreme heatwave can reach northwestern Europe. That occurs when a deep low pressure is located over Atlantic. As it spins in anti-clockwise, warm air is pushed from North Africa to Europe, reaching France, Germany , up to England too, as we saw last week.
Lots of greetings from Puglia ( Italy) 👋🏻. By the way, we’re ready to cope with a new African heatwave 😅. It’ll peak on Friday when 40 degrees are forecasted 🥵. Damn!
Hi
Such a nice episode
Although it's about 40 degrees here I love this weather and I have a lot of memories about this weather,also I'm fond of this weather because I eat a large amount of ice-cream.However, heat waves which is dominating nowadays on Europe are actually a result of climate change,besides it has negative effects on people and plants at the same time.Anyway,I'd like to tell my European friends that fall will come soon,so you will feel refreshing and this weather will be forgotten till next summer.
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Hottest Temperatures
In U.S., the first half of the twentieth century was hotter than anything lately. Also there was more Arctic ice melt then.
breakthroughs in this area are gonna be needed soon.
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It's unseasonably hot in here.
The weather is unpredictable these days.
I have to adapt to extreme weather conditions.
Global warming is a big issue.
It's too late, but we can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions; vehicle engine emissions, farming emissions and factory emissions.
These emissions can be converted to usable energy.
Cow emission can provide energy to run a car for 24 hours.
Rising sea levels and melting polar ice caps are also major concerns.
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Love this channel especially Lingohack because it's come with subtitle , vocabulary and real news.
Thank you for made this video!
Putting aside what anyone claims, 3 trillion trees have been cut down to farm animal products and their feedstuff. Cambridge University just released figures to show 1 trillion trees will convert CO2 to oxygen and save humans (the planet will save itself as it did many times in the same circumstances in history.
I contend that the 3 trillion trees will safeguard all humankind and provide jobs for the third world.
Thank you, BBC. 💚
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The weather is unpredicatable these days because of the climate change. It's too late to stop climate chang particularly the global warming which leads to rising sea levels and melting polar icecaps.
Eating meat can also kill our planet because we need more land to keep animals on. As we need more land so we have to cut down trees – that's deforestation – cutting down forests – harmful emissions from the wood and soil.
We love meat as you can see there are a boom in burger restaurants in mega-cities.
People in drought areas can't grow crops. They rely on livestock for a living.
Well, at the moment all we need to do is to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions or make them less harmful.
For example, we might convert cow emissions and turn it into usable energy which can provide energy to run a car for 24 hours.
Desalination – removing salt from the sea and converting them into drinking water.
Homegrown-technology – harvesting water from their rooftops.
Floating cities – but it's not cost-efficient.
The rich have to pledge to deliver money to fight climate change.
Thank you!
Thank you so much
Who else is watching this because they had to do it for a project/homework? 😂
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal describes a four fold increase in weather related disasters since 1980. Droughts and storms are increasing in frequency, intensity and duration.
Search:
‘weather related disasters increasing’
1:32 you know, I've listened to her 4 times and didn't get what she said
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