Задание

Match the questions about climate change.

1. What is climate change?

2. What is the ‘greenhouse effect’?

3. What is the evidence of global warming?

4. How will the weather change?

5. What is the international community doing?

1. What is climate change?

What is the ‘greenhouse effect’?

What is the evidence of global warming?

How will the weather change?

What is the international community doing?

C. The planets climate is constantly changing but now scientists believe that extreme changes today are a result of human activity. It can affect the stability of the climate.

D. The term refers to the role played by the layer of gases, including carbon dioxides and methane, which trap the heat from the sun in the earth atmosphere.

A. Sea levels have risen by 10-20 cm. This is due to the expansions of warming oceans. The average temperature has increased.

E. It is difficult to predict, but we can expect more extreme weather conditions like floods, storms and heat waves and higher risk of drought in inland areas.

B. The Kioto Protokol commits industrialised countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.