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Old Irish goats return to County Dublin to protect hills from wildfires
- legrande 5y ago> With climate change the risk of fires will go up Is `global warming` a more appropriate term/phrase, since the climate is known to change all the time? I think `climate change` has gained a certain momentum however and people use it to mean `global warming` or otherwise manmade climate effects, no?
- dehrmann 5y ago"Global warming" fell out of fashion because every time there's a cold spell, climate deniers would respond "must be global warming."
- Anthony-G 5y agoI used to think the more innocuous-sounding phrase, “climate change” was (successfully) promoted over the term “global warming” by fossil fuel propagandists. Climates change as a matter of course and it would suit the fossil fuel industry to downplay the anthropogenic escalation of the “greenhouse effect”. However, this article concurs with your explanation: https://www.dictionary.com/e/new-words-surrounding-climate-change/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/new-words-surrounding-climate-c... > Climate change is a term that better encompasses the myriad longterm changes to the climate that can be brought on by an increase in Earth’s average temperature. These effects include more heat waves and rising sea levels as polar ice caps melt, but they also include extreme cold, droughts, floods, fires, and catastrophic storms.
- psd1 5y agoIf anyone can suggest an animal that will eat bracken, I'll take 20