Climate Change 2 Flashcards by victor sueur

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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

Élever le niveau de la mer

To raise the sea level

Les îles/régions de basses altitudes

Los lying islands /areas

La dilatation des mers

Expansion of the seas

Provoquer l'élévation du niveau des océans

To cause the océans to rise

L'érosion des rivages

Shoreline erosion

Une digue

A levee /a dike

Un brise lames

A bulwark

Consolider les défenses d'une ville

To shore up a city

L'intensification des orages tropicaux

Tropical cyclone activity

La pénurie d'eau

Water scarcity

Le recul des glaciers

Glacier retreat

La propagation des maladies

Spread of disease

Le risque d'extinction des espèces

Species extinction risk

Les rendements agricoles

Agricultural yields

L'acidification des océans

Ocean acidification

L'assombrissement global

Global dimming

Les pluies acides

Acid rain

L'atténuation du réchauffement climatique

Mitigation of global warming

La géo ingénierie

Geoengineering

Inverser le réchauffement planétaire

To reverse global warming

Manipuler le climat de la terre

To manipulate the Earth's climate

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

To counteract the effects of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions

La séquestration du dioxyde de carbone

Carbon sequestration

Le stockage à long terme du CO2

Long-term storage of carbon dioxide

La technologie des toits froids

Cool roof technology

La gestion des radiations solaires

Solar radiation management

L'ensemencement des nuages

Cloud seeding