Climate Change: The Facts Flashcards
“political hot potato”
Controversial
Informal idiom
“Relentless rise”
Emotive alliteration
“Mop up” , “sky high”
Metaphor -> idioms
Informal
“Unfortunately not”
Anticlimax
“Nasty sting in its tail”
Metaphor / personification
“Farting cows” , “rotting vegetation”
Informal examples to appeal to younger audience
“Farting cows” , “burping”
Appeal to younger audience
Provide cohesion
“We’ll be sitting in our deckchairs”
Informal
Relatable
“Addiction”
Negative connotations
“Greenhouse gases” , “green house effect”
Scientific terms
Glossed
General stuff
Form of FAQ
Easy to read with no specialist knowledge required
General audience of younger people
Words are glossed
Has subtitles
Comes from a reliable source (guardian newspaper)
Lots of simple facts and statistics
General (diagram page)
Focused on the question
Focused on the semantic field
Contains lots of statistics
Purpose is to alarm
Uses shock tactics (eg, displays worse spaces scenario on graph)
Professional source for central diagram (Hadley centre)
