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French Climate Change And Global Warming Vocabulary

French Climate Change And Global Warming Vocabulary

Lexique du changement et rechauffement climatique

Global climate change is real. On this page we’ve provided a complete list of French climate change and global warming vocabulary. We’ve broken the list down in to the following categories: weather and energy, science, geography and land as well as useful verbs.

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Weather and energy

  • climate le climat
  • climatologist un/une climatologue, climatologiste
  • drought une sécheresse
  • precipitation le précipitations (f)
  • solar energy l’énergie solaire
  • weather le temps, la météo
  • global climate le climat global de la Terre
  • regional climates les climats régionaux
  • tornados les tornades (f)
  • hurricanes les ouragan (m)
  • storms les tempêtes (f)
  • natural disasters les catastrophes naturelles (f)
  • renewable energy les énergies renouvelables (f)
  • nuclear energy l’énergie nucléaire (f)
  • wind power, wind energy l’énergie éolienne (f)
  • solar energy l’énergie solaire (f)
  • hydroelectric power l’énergie hydraulique

Science

  • climate change le changement climatique, le dérèglement climatique
  • global warming le réchauffement climatique
  • atmosphere l’atmosphère (f)
  • barometric pressure la pression atmosphérique
  • concentration la concentration
  • ecosystem un écosystème
  • environment l’environment (m)
  • fossil fuel un combustible fossile
  • greenhouse gas le gaz à effet de serre
  • greenhouse gas emissions les émissions de gaz à effet de serre
  • greenhouse effect l’effet de serre (m)
  • methane concentration la concentration de méthane
  • carbon dioxide (CO2) le dioxyde de carbone
  • average temperature la température moyenne

Geography and land

  • deforestation le déboisement, déforestation
  • glacier un glacier
  • planet la planète
  • oceans les océans (m)
  • sub-tropical countries les pays subtropicaux
  • polar regions les régions polaires
  • sea ice, pack ice la banquise

History, time periods, people

  • industrial revolution la révolution industrielle
  • human activity les activités humaines (f)
  • the increase in average temperature l’augmentation de la température moyenne (f)
  • phenomenon un phénomène
  • recording un enregistrement
  • time period une période
  • melting of glaciers la fonte des glaciers
  • animal species les espèces animales
  • ice age, glacial period une période glaciaire
  • gas emissions les rejets de gaz
  • cars les voitures (f)
  • factories les usines (f)
  • consequences of climate change les conséquences du réchauffement climatique
  • raising of livestock l’élevage (m)
  • increase of heat l’augmentation de chaleur (f)
  • increase in sea levels l’augmentation du niveau de la mer
  • carbon tax une taxe carbone

Verbs related to climate change

  • to warm up se réchauffer
  • to increase augmenter
  • to disappear disparaître
  • to burn fossil fules brûler les énergies fossiles
  • to destroy forests détruire les forêts
  • to release carbon relâcher le carbone
  • to emit CO2 émettre le CO2
  • to fight against climate change lutter contre le réchauffement climatique
  • to remedy the problem remédier le problème
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