Climate change: What do all the terms mean?

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Use our translator tool to find out what all the scientific terms used to discuss climate change actually mean.

Climate change is seen as the biggest challenge to the future of human life on Earth, and understanding the scientific language used to describe it can sometimes feel just as difficult.

The steady rise in global average temperature in recent decades, which experts say is mostly caused by human-produced greenhouse gas emissions. The long-term trend continues upwards with 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 being the warmest years on record.Green energy, sometimes called renewable energy, is generated from natural, replenishable sources. Examples are wind and solar power as well as biomass, made from compressed wood pellets.

The process would be carbon neutral if the amount taken out and the amount released were identical. A company or country can also achieve carbon neutrality by means of carbon offsettingEmissions are any release of gases such as carbon dioxide which cause global warming, a major cause of climate change

Examples range from extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it underground to more far-fetched ideas such as deploying vast mirrors in space to deflect the Sun's rays

 

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Climate change is a natural process. No CO2! We all die including plant life.🧐💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰

They mean the unenlightenment is deepening. A new Dark Age where high priests of secular dogma promote illogical & unreasoning nonsense as science is corrupted, reason falters, & IQ levels drop. All encouraged by corrupt media, government & academia that have drunk the Kool Aid

How are you going to change climate..? how are you going to produce the extra electricity to charge your unicorn vehicles..? How are you going to create zero emissions..? You will never tell me what to eat..! 1.400 volcanos will kill you not 'my 'miger life on earth.

Are you havin' a laugh? Is he havin' a laugh? Walkies.

Ooh, gammon, racist, denier. There. I win the argument.

You’ve forgotten ‘alarmism’ and ‘taxes’

They mean we’re fucked

Idiotic responses from deniers incoming in 3.2.1.....

Good

Here for the usual comments from the gammon about how climate change is a hoax.

Terminology meant to keep the general public in a state of fear so they ignore more important issues

You forgot Climategate

More made up buzzwords to confuse the masses to believe the lies. Standard BBC.

no hoax mentioned in that list , anthropogenic climate change is a fraud

I think they all mean 'Please can we have some more money'. Probably doesn't have a Please in it either.

'Not real'

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