1) What is the main point of this article?
- The main point of this article is about whether weather is an indicator of climate change that is impacted by global warming or not.
2) List four vocabulary words that you do not recognize or understand, and look up the definitions, write them out using your own words.
- Uproot – forcing someone to leave
- Reluctant – unwilling to do something
- Variability – inconsistency; changeability
- Vulnerable – likely to be hurt or damaged
3) What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?
- Weather is a condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place whereas climate is the usual weather of a place, occurring for a long period of time.
4) What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”?
- Heavy rainstorms in summer
- Big snowstorms in winter
- Intense droughts
- Bad heat waves
- Monsoon rains in Pakistan, killing more than 1,500 people and uprooting millions.
- In Russia, a bad heat wave and a record-breaking drought had destroyed millions of acres of wheat and sparked wildfires that killed dozens.
- In the United States, flooding devastated New England, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Meanwhile, a record-breaking heat wave warmed/heated the entire eastern part of the country.
5) What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”?
- I haven’t had any experience with an extreme weather because I live in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – a pretty safe place because it is not bordered by the oceans which can cause floods, neither any earthquake, drought, etc – has had happened before. Despite that fact, there are still some unusual climate changes during the past few years, for the temperature increases and rains turn out to be heavier. However, so far as I remember there were two severe storms in 1996 in Vietnam and they damaged a lot of things, killing a hundred of people, destroying 194,000 households, and flooded 177,000 ones.
6) What does the word “perception” mean?
- Perception – the understanding; how you see and comprehend the concepts of something.
7) What is your “perception” of global climate change?
- I perceive that global climate change is in fact a serious issue that all human beings should concern about. In my opinion, global climate change can be blamed of global warming, and that severely damages human as well as living things’ habitations. In general, global warming is when CO2 and other greenhouse gases are heated and released to the atmosphere, which later get trapped in the greenhouse effect. That heat cannot escape in which it warms the earth more and more. As the earth gets hotter, precipitations will get heavier in wet regions whereas in dry regions, they will get drier. Even though those signs are only statistics of weather change, it could be perceived as global climate change if that keeps happening for a long period of time. Therefore, I personally think that global warming is affecting climate change.
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