ChinesePod Today: Arctic Temperature Rise Inevitable (simp. characters)
- 5 years ago
ChinesePod News (March 14, 2019)
According to findings presented Wednesday at the United Nations Environment Assembly, dangerous temperature rises in the Arctic are inevitable even if the goals set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement are achieved. Melting permafrost in the Arctic releases methane into the atmosphere.
NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/gv3jr18WDF0
This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:
甲烷: methane
二氧化碳: carbon dioxide
攀升: to rise, to climb up
温室气体: greenhouse gases
永久冻土: permafrost
大气层: atmosphere
已成必然: to become inevitable
逼至「临界点」: to be pushed to the tipping point
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According to findings presented Wednesday at the United Nations Environment Assembly, dangerous temperature rises in the Arctic are inevitable even if the goals set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement are achieved. Melting permafrost in the Arctic releases methane into the atmosphere.
NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/gv3jr18WDF0
This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:
甲烷: methane
二氧化碳: carbon dioxide
攀升: to rise, to climb up
温室气体: greenhouse gases
永久冻土: permafrost
大气层: atmosphere
已成必然: to become inevitable
逼至「临界点」: to be pushed to the tipping point
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