Climate Change 2 Flashcards by victor sueur | Brainscape

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Les gaz à effet de serre

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Greenhouse gases

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Des gaz contribuant au réchauffement climatique

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Climate-warming gases

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Dioxide de carbone

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Carbon dioxide

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Les chlorofluocarbures

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Chlorofluorocarbons

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Les hydrochlorofluocarbures

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Hydrofluorocarbons

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Le méthane

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Méthane

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L’ozone

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Ozone

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L’hemioxyde d’azote

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Nitrous oxide

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Les hydrocarbures perfluorés

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Perflurinated hydrocarbons

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La fonte des calottes glaciaires polaires

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The melting of polar ice caps

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La fonte du pergélisol

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Melting permafrost

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La diminution de l’Articque

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Arctic shrinkage

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La diminution de la banquise

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Sea ice loss

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L’inlandsis de l’Antarctique

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The Antarctic ice sheet

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L’ouverture du passage du Nord-Ouest

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The opening of the Northwest Passage

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La diminution de l’ozone

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Ozone depletion

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La sécheresse

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Drought

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Une vague de chaleur

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A heat wave

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La canicule

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Dog days

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La désertification

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Désertification

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Les feux de forêt

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Forest fires

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Inonder /les inondations

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To flood /flooding

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Les inondations côtières

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Coastal flooding

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Une ville/région côtière

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A coastal town /area

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Élever le niveau de la mer

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To raise the sea level

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Les îles/régions de basses altitudes

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Los lying islands /areas

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La dilatation des mers

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Expansion of the seas

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Provoquer l’élévation du niveau des océans

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To cause the océans to rise

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L’érosion des rivages

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Shoreline erosion

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Une digue

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A levee /a dike

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Un brise lames

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A bulwark

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Consolider les défenses d’une ville

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To shore up a city

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L’intensification des orages tropicaux

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Tropical cyclone activity

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La pénurie d’eau

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Water scarcity

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Le recul des glaciers

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Glacier retreat

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La propagation des maladies

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Spread of disease

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Le risque d’extinction des espèces

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Species extinction risk

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Les rendements agricoles

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Agricultural yields

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L’acidification des océans

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Ocean acidification

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L’assombrissement global

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Global dimming

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Les pluies acides

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Acid rain

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L’atténuation du réchauffement climatique

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Mitigation of global warming

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La géo ingénierie

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Geoengineering

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Inverser le réchauffement planétaire

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To reverse global warming

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Manipuler le climat de la terre

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To manipulate the Earth’s climate

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Contrer les effets du réchauffement planétaire du aux emissions de gaz à effet de serre

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To counteract the effects of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions

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La séquestration du dioxyde de carbone

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Carbon sequestration

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Le stockage à long terme du CO2

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Long-term storage of carbon dioxide

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La technologie des toits froids

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Cool roof technology

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La gestion des radiations solaires

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Solar radiation management

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L’ensemencement des nuages

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Cloud seeding