Sunday, 20 September 2020

G1:“The phrase ‘climate change’, for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity.”


G2: “Increasingly, climate scientists and organisations from the UN to the Met Office are changing their terminology, and using stronger language to describe the situation we’re in,” she said.


 NOTES:

1...Instead of climate change  the preferred terms are  climate emergency.

2...global heating  is favoured over global warming.

3...original terms are not banned.

4..climate scientists and organisations from the UN to the Met Office are changing their terminology, and using stronger language to describe the situation.

5..Global heating was a more accurate than global warming.

 6..carbon emission must halve by 2030 to avoid even greater risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.

7..Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen so dramatically.



SUMMARY

The guardian introduced more accurate term to describe environment crisis , because they are more scientifically precise and to communicate clearly with readers, such as using " climate emergency , crisis or breakdown " instead of climate change and global heating is favoured over global warming . Also , The scale of the climate and wildlife crises has been laid bare by two landmark reports from the world’s scientists. In October, they said carbon emission must decrease  by 2030 to avoid even greater risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.Further more other terms that changed , including the use of “wildlife” rather than “biodiversity”, “fish populations” instead of “fish stocks” and “climate science denier” rather than “climate sceptic”.Guardian’s style guide follows the addition of the global carbon dioxide level to the Guardian’s daily weather pages. “Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen so dramatically – including a measure of that in our daily weather report is symbolic of what human activity is doing to our climate,”








 

G1: “The phrase ‘climate change’, for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for ...