News Exercise #248

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1. What examples did the reporter give?
2. What analogy was used by the Met Office to explain that global climate change is real?
3. What did the numbers 2000 and 7000 signify?
4. What did the number 250,000 signify?

Answers:
1. What examples did the reporter give?
Wildfires in Greece, a collapsed dam in Laos, forest fires in Sweden burning inside the Arctic Circle, and a natural disaster declared in Japan.
2. What analogy was used by the Met Office to explain that global climate change is real?
He said that getting a heatwave was like rolling a dice (pedantically a “die”) and getting a “6”, so the chances of this happening all over the world are very unlikely unless they are connected.
3. What did the numbers 2000 and 7000 signify?
There are currently around 200 deaths in the UK connected to hot weather, but it is expected to reach 7000 by the 2050s.
4. What did the number 250,000 signify?
It is the number of deaths from malnutrition resulting from crop failure predicted by the WHO between 2020 and 2050..