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    What Is Happening To Our Weather

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    Extreme weather events like heavy rainfall, droughts, and heat waves are becoming more common. While natural climate cycles influence weather, human greenhouse gas emissions are warming the oceans and atmosphere. This causes more water vapor in the air, fueling more extreme rainfall, storms, and other weather events. Both natural and human factors affect extreme weather, but human-caused climate change is exacerbating the risks.

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    What Is Happening To Our Weather

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    Extreme weather events like heavy rainfall, droughts, and heat waves are becoming more common. While natural climate cycles influence weather, human greenhouse gas emissions are warming the oceans and atmosphere. This causes more water vapor in the air, fueling more extreme rainfall, storms, and other weather events. Both natural and human factors affect extreme weather, but human-caused climate change is exacerbating the risks.

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    Extreme weather events like heavy rainfall, droughts, and heat waves are becoming more common. While natural climate cycles influence weather, human greenhouse gas emissions are warming the oceans and atmosphere. This causes more water vapor in the air, fueling more extreme rainfall, storms, and other weather events. Both natural and human factors affect extreme weather, but human-caused climate change is exacerbating the risks.

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    Extreme weather events like heavy rainfall, droughts, and heat waves are becoming more common. While natural climate cycles influence weather, human greenhouse gas emissions are warming the oceans and atmosphere. This causes more water vapor in the air, fueling more extreme rainfall, storms, and other weather events. Both natural and human factors affect extreme weather, but human-caused climate change is exacerbating the risks.

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    What is happening to our weather?

    https://www.ngllife.com/wild-weather-0

    https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-
    change-stories/climate-change-frequently-asked-questions/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSWIjvZhE98&ab_channel=NBCNews

    What is ‘extreme’ weather? Why are people talking about it these days? ‘Extreme’ weather is
    an unusual weather event such as rainfall, a drought or a heat wave in the wrong place or at
    the wrong time. In theory, they are very rare. But these days, our TV screens are constantly
    showing such extreme weather events. Take just three news stories from 2010: 28 centimetres
    of rain fell on Rio de Janeiro in 24 hours, Nashville, USA, had 33 centimetres of rain in two days
    and there was record rainfall in Pakistan.

    The effects of this kind of rainfall are dramatic and lethal. In Rio de Janeiro, landslides
    followed, burying hundreds of people. In Pakistan, the floods affected 20 million people.
    Meanwhile, other parts of the world suffer devastating droughts. Australia, Russia and East
    Africa have been hit in the last ten years. And then there are unexpected heat waves, such as
    in 2003 in Europe. That summer, 35,000 deaths were said to be heat-related.

    So, what is happening to our weather? Are these extreme events part of a natural cycle? Or
    are they caused by human activity and its effects on the Earth’s climate? Peter Miller says it’s
    probably a mixture of both of these things. On the one hand, the most important influences on
    weather events are natural cycles in the climate. Two of the most famous weather cycles, El
    Niño and La Niña, originate in the Pacific Ocean. The heat from the warm ocean rises high into
    the atmosphere and affects weather all around the world. On the other hand, the temperature
    of the Earth’s oceans is slowly but steadily going up. And this is a result of human activity. We
    are producing greenhouse gases that trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere. This heat warms up
    the atmosphere, land and oceans. Warmer oceans produce more water vapour – think of
    heating a pan of water in your kitchen. Turn up the heat, it produces steam more quickly.
    Satellite data tells us that the water vapour in the atmosphere has gone up by four percent in
    25 years. This warm, wet air turns into the rain, storms, hurricanes and typhoons that we are
    increasingly

    Reading comprehension:

    Read the article and choose the correct option.

    1. The article says extreme weather is ...

    becoming more common.

    not a natural occurrence.

    difficult for scientists to understand.


    2. According to the article, extreme weather is a problem because ...

    we can't predict it.

    it affects places where lots of people live.

    it’s often very destructive.

    3. Extreme weather can by caused by ...

    satellites above the Earth.

    water vapour in the atmosphere.

    very hot summers.

    Read the article again and choose the correct option.

    4. Why was the rain in Nashville considered to be an extreme event?

    There was a lot of rain over a long time period.

    It doesn’t usually rain in Nashville.

    There was a lot of rain in a short time.

    5. What happened after the extreme rain in Rio de Janeiro?

    There were major floods.

    There were many deaths.

    Millions of people were affected.

    6. What caused many deaths in 2003?

    a period of hot weather

    floods that followed a bad summer

    a long drought

    7. Which of these things is the basis of normal weather patterns?

    greenhouse gases

    human activity

    El Niño and La Niña

    8. Where does atmospheric water vapour come from?

    the land

    the ocean

    greenhouse gases

    9. We can use satellites to ...

    change where storms will happen.


    trap greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

    measure changes in atmospheric water vapour.

    10. According to Michael Oppenheimer ...

    we don't understand extreme weather events.

    we can limit the effects of extreme weather.

    we can stop climate change.

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