BC environment climate change

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término definición
a smokestack
Michael and Sherry Fitz, who can see Mill Creek’s smokestacks from their front yard, have lived a few blocks from the plant for more than a decade.
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komin
Smokes like a chimney:
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Dymi jak komin:
tiimescale
However, the costs and the timescales involved in producing and perfecting such a project would be massive.
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skala czasowa
ingest carbon emissions
Scientists from Columbia University have proposed forests of artificial trees to ingest carbon emissions and fight global warming.
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pochłaniać emisje dwutlenku węgla
flyswats
The prototypes look like giant flyswats
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muchy
bouncing radiation back
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odbijanie promieniowania
on their death
On their death, they sink to the sea floor, taking their carbon with them. So, despite being a microorganism, they ingest tons of CO2.
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po ich śmierci
far-fetched idea
f these ideas seem far-fetched, perhaps that is a measure of how desperate things have become!
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naciągany pomysł
hoover up
They could for example be placed along motorways to hoover up the exhaust fumes.
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odkurzać
Power stations, smoke stacks, and vehicle exhaust fumes
Power stations, smoke stacks, and vehicle exhaust fumes release high levels of carbon emissions into the upper atmosphere.
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Elektrownie, kominy i spaliny samochodowe
ozone depletion
This leads to ozone depletion and the trapping of heat, which creates the "unreliable weather conditions" (like droughts or frosts) that threaten coffee trees.
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zubożenie warstwy ozonowej
acid rain
When these gases mix with water, they fall as acid rain, which can damage crops and change the soil chemistry for smallholders
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kwaśny deszcz
Kwaśny deszcz szkodzi lasom.
primary driver
While a volcanic eruption can also release gases, human activity in 2026 is currently the primary driver of these changes.
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główna przyczyna, główny udziałowiec
Helium balloons are often used by scientists to travel into the upper atmosphere to measure ozone depletion levels!
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Naukowcy często wykorzystują balony wypełnione helem, aby podróżować w górne warstwy atmosfery i mierzyć poziom zubożenia warstwy ozonowej!

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