Let's listen to this video on how the climate change is affecting our planet and answer the following questions on the comment section:
- How are heatwaves affecting the earth?
- How are flash floods produced?
- Where and when did that flooding occur?
- What is happening to the Arctic sea ice? How is that affecting the weather?
- What will happen to storms in the future?
VOCABULARY:
Droughts/drauts/: A long period of abnormally low rainfall, especially one that adversely affects growing or living conditions
Moister: Slightly wet; damp or humid.
Knock-on effect (adj): resulting inevitably but indirectly from another event or circumstance the works closed with the direct loss of 3000 jobs and many more from the knock-on effect on the área.
1 comment:
1. It increases the severity of draughts.
2. The warmer climate leads to increase in atmospheric moisture and it cause higher flash-floods.
3. In 2012 in Beijing, it was a terrible flash-flood, and in Buenos Aires in 2013 too.
4. It has decreased by 80% since 1980, and it changes behavior of jet streams, slowing his speed, and the artic oscillation more likely to be in negative phase, that brings about cold weather.
5. They will be extended to areas that it’s not used to suffer them. The super storms could be more frequent in Europe at the end of our century.
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