Vocab Flashcards
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A benchmark number given by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) in an attempt to make more meaningful the amount of warming our planet can absorb without even greater problems caused by climate change.
1.5°C
The process of adjusting the way we live in response to our changing climates.
Adaptation
Growing crops under solar panels; also known as agrivoltaics and agrisolar.
Agrivoltaic farming
Agriculture (both farming and ranching) that incorporates the conservation of trees.
Agroforestry
The proposed term for the current period of time during which human activities have had a significant environmental impact on the Earth due to climate change and altering ecosystems.
Anthropocene
The whole mass of air surrounding Earth.
Atmosphere
Long, narrow regions in the atmosphere that transports lots of water vapor (often resulting in sustained torrential rains in an area causing flooding).
Atmospheric river
A megastorm that would normally occur infrequently (maybe once in a thousand years). It is expected to occur more frequently with climate change. AR stands for atmospheric river. K stands for 1000.
ARkStorm
Plants burned to generate electricity, such as corn, algae, agricultural waste, cooking oil, old food, manure, grass clippings, etc.
Biofuel
The part of the world in which life can exist; also known as the ecosphere.
Biosphere
Carbon dioxide captured by the ocean and ocean ecosystems such as algae, sea grass, and mangrove trees.
Blue carbon
High winds caused by a rapid drop in air pressure.
Bomb cyclone
Using technology to capture carbon dioxide at power plants, factories, oil drilling sites, etc., and keep it from going into the air.
Carbon capture
A gas made of one carbon atom and two oxygen; it’s chemical formula is CO2. It is made by burning anything that has carbon (all plants and animals; and fossil fuels, which were once plants and animals).
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide gas going into the air.
Carbon emissions
Agricultural practices that work to keep the carbon in the soil, rather than releasing it as carbon dioxide into the air; eg. burying left over plant matter in the ground rather than burning it or throwing it away.
Carbon farming
The total greenhouse gas emissions caused by an individual (or family, or organization). To reduce your carbon footprint is to use less fossil fuel generated products (electricity, running a car, etc), and reduce the number of products you buy.
Carbon footprint
The amount of carbon dioxide put into the air does not exceed the amount of carbon dioxide taken out of the air.
Carbon-neutral
An action to make up for another action that causes carbon dioxide to be put into the air.
Carbon offset
Carbon sequestration; capturing carbon dioxide and storing and storing it (usually underground).
Carbon storage
Recycling and reusing products as much as possible to reduce having to buy more (when you outgrow your clothes; give them to someone else to wear).
Circular economy
