понедельник, 18 марта 2024 г.
четверг, 29 февраля 2024 г.
Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe
Emissions from Israel’s war in
Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe
Nina Lakhani Climate justice
reporter
Tue 9 Jan 2024 08.30 GMT
Exclusive: First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows.
The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, new research reveals.
The vast majority (99%) of the 281,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2 equivalent) estimated to have been generated in the first 60 days following the 7 October Hamas attack can be attributed to Israel’s aerial bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by researchers in the UK and US.
According to the study, which is based on only a handful of carbon-intensive activities and is therefore probably a significant underestimate, the climate cost of the first 60 days of Israel’s military response was equivalent to burning at least 150,000 tonnes of coal.
The analysis, which is yet to be peer reviewed, includes CO2 from aircraft missions, tanks and fuel from other vehicles, as well as emissions generated by making and exploding the bombs, artillery and rockets. It does not include other planet-warming gases such as methane. Almost half the total CO2 emissions were down to US cargo planes flying military supplies to Israel.
The data, shared exclusively with the Guardian, provides the first, albeit conservative estimate of the carbon cost of the current conflict in Gaza, which is causing unprecedented human suffering, infrastructure damage and environmental catastrophe.
It comes amid growing calls for greater accountability of military greenhouse gas emissions, which play an outsize role in the climate crisis but are largely kept secret and unaccounted for in the annual UN negotiations on climate action.
According to Crawford, about 20% of the US military’s annual operational emissions go towards protecting fossil fuel interests in the Gulf region – a climate change hotspot, warming twice as fast as the rest of the inhabited world. Yet the US – like other Nato countries – is mostly focused on the climate crisis as a national security risk, rather than on its contribution to it.
Responding to the carbon analysis, Lior Haiat, a spokesperson for the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs, said: “Israel did not want this war. It was imposed on us by the Hamas terror organization that killed, murdered, executed hundreds of people and kidnapped over 240 including children, women and the elderly. ”
“Among all the problems facing the state of Palestine in the coming
decades, climate change is the most
immediate and certain – and this has been amplified by the occupation and war
on Gaza since the 7 October,” said Ikhmais, the Palestinian climate director.
“The carbon emissions from the military attacks contradict the UNFCCC and Paris
agreement goal … recognizing the environmental impact of war is crucial.”
Lesson 1
Task 1. Read the article, write out the words in bold
and translate them into Russian.
Task 2. Consult the dictionary and be ready to explain
the meaning of the words in bold.
Task 3. Make up your own sentences with the words in
bold (at home).
Task 4. Make up dialogues using the words given in bold (in
class).
Lesson 2.
Task 5. Think over and divide the text of the article
into logical parts.
Task 6. Make up and write a question to each logical
part.
Task 7. Be ready to render the article.
Task 8. Learn by heart the words in bold and be ready
for a dictation translation.
среда, 7 февраля 2024 г.
What is art for you?
Sometimes we think what kind of role art plays in our life.
The video below will help you to answer this question.
Watch it and try to answer the questions "What is art for you?"
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суббота, 30 декабря 2023 г.
понедельник, 11 декабря 2023 г.
Review Examples
Movie Review Examples That Will Help You Write Better Reviews
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- Watch the film at least once. ...
- Express your opinions and support your criticism. ...
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- Talk about the acting. ...
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- Reread, rewrite, and edit.
четверг, 7 декабря 2023 г.
Thankless job as bad for heart as obesity
Thankless job as bad for heart as obesity
Kaya Burgess Science Reporter
TheTimes | Wednesday September 20 2023
Men with stressful jobs who feel they get little reward or thanks for their work are twice as likely to develop heart disease as those in more fulfilling roles, a study has found — a similar risk to that associated with obesity.
Researchers from Canada looked at a factor they called “job strain”, faced by workers who experience a “combination of high job demands and low control over their work”.
This can include roles with a heavy workload and tight deadlines where employees have “little Thankless job as bad for heart as obesity say in decision-making”.
They also looked at “effort-reward imbalance”, where workers feel that their “salary, recognition or job security [is] insufficient or unequal to the effort” required.
The researchers asked almost 6,500 participants, in mainly management, professional, technical and office-based roles, to rate the strain of their jobs and how well-rewarded they felt.
The study, published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, followed the workers over an 18-year period, from 2000 to 2018, and tracked those who had a “coronary heart disease event”.
The report added that the results were inconclusive for women. A separate study suggests that having highly educated colleagues can lower the risk of developing heart disease for both men and women.
Researchers in Sweden suggested that “highly educated colleagues have
more knowledge of good health-related
behaviours such as having a healthy diet, exercising and refraining from
smoking” and said that “both good and bad habits can spread in social networks
at work”. The study was published in the journal BMJ Open.
Pre-reading
part
Task1. Paraphrase the statements. Do you agree or disagree? Why (not)? How
is the statement related to the headline of the article?
The
price of doing a job always less than the expense of doing it twice.
The
man who works merely because he has to, will never advance.
Task 1. Make a list of glossary words from the words and
phrases given in bold and provide Russian equivalents in written form.
While-reading part
Task 2. Read the article and be ready to translate it.
Task 3. Find
in the text of the article sentences containing new vocabulary and explain the
meaning in English. Make up sentences of your own using the new vocabulary.
Task
4. Make
up a dialogue/interview using the new vocabulary.
Post-reading part
Task 5. Divide the text of the article into logical parts. Make
up 2 questions to each part to ask your groupmates.
Task 6. Be ready to discuss in the classroom with your group
mates:
А) What was the correspondent’s intention to tell the
general public about?
B) What is the main idea/problem
raised?
Task 7. Give a summary of the article.
Task 8. Write a rendering of the article. Mind the rules of a rendering writing.
Task 9. Learn the new vocabulary from the article be ready to write the dictation-translation.
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