Address

Discurso

to speak to

Closing address
by the

Arid regions

Regiones
ridas

Ecosystems
with less
than 250
mm
precipitation
per year.

Dust lofted into

the atmosphere
from arid
regions on
decadal climate
variation

Atmospheri
c
circulation
Average
conditions

Circulacin
atmosfrica

Basin

Cuenca

Build-up
Chart

Aumento
Grfico,
grfica

Deforestati
on

Deforestaci
n

Earths
energy
balance
Emissions
quota

Equilibrio
energtico
de la Tierra
Cupo de
emisiones

Condiciones
habituales

Depression
in the
surface of
the land or in
the ocean
floor
These two
charts show
annual forest
loss totals
for Brazil and
Indonesia
from 2000 to
2012.
The causes
of this loss
include
deforestation
, wildfires,
windstorms
and insects.

The portion
or share of
total
allowable
emissions
assigned to a
country or
group of
countries

Climate change
can involve
changes in
average
conditions
[] and nine
ocean basins []

An outline map
exhibiting
something (as
climatic or
magnetic
variations) in its
geographical
aspects

http://unfccc
.int/2860.ph
p
https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/n
ews/2307/

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/forestcover/

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/forestcover/

What's the best

policy for cutting
Canada's emissi
ons?

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

within a
framework of
maximum
total
emissions
and
mandatory
allocations of
resources.
Episodic
Factor

Espordico
Factor

Forest
cover

Masa
forestal,
cubierta
forestal

Forest loss

Prdida de
masa
forestal

Forestry
Framework
convention

Silvicultura
Convencin
marco

Greenhouse
effect

Efecto
invernadero

One that
actively
contributes
to the
production of
a result
http://climat
e.nasa.gov/vi
talsigns/forestcover/
Global forest
loss between
the years
2000 and
2012 was
888,000
square miles

Warming of
the surface
and lower
atmosphere
of a planet
that is
caused by
conversion
of solar
radiation into
heat in a
process
involving
selective
transmission
of short
wave solar
radiation by

Sea level rise is

caused primarily
by two factors
related to global
warming

Progressive
destruction of
the forest cover
density

Framework
convention on
climate change
To see
greenhouse-gas
emissions
reduced

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/sealevel/
http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/forestcover/
http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/forestcover/

http://unfccc
.int/2860.ph
p
http://climat
e.nasa.gov/n
ews/2271/

Hydrospher
e

Hidrosfera

Ice cap

Casquete de
hielo

Ice sheet

Capa de
hielo

the
atmosphere,
its
absorption
by the
planet's
surface, and
reradiation
as infrared
which is
absorbed
and partly
reradiated
back to the
surface by
atmospheric
gases
The
component
of the
climate
system
composed of
liquid
surface and
subterranean
water, such
as oceans,
seas, rivers,
freshwater
lakes,
underground
water, etc.
A dome
shaped ice
mass
covering a
highland
area that is
considerably
smaller in
extent than
an ice sheet
A mass of
land ice
sufficiently
deep to
cover most
of the
underlying

For many years,

it was thought
that these
megafloods were
caused by the
release of a
deep
global hydrosphe
re in the Martian
subsoil.

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

The oceanic ice

melds into the
larger Arctic ice
cap

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

A huge swath of
the West
Antarctic ice
sheet nearly 75
miles wide is on
the verge of
collapse

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

bedrock
topography.
It flows
outward
from a high
central
plateau with
a small
average
surface
slope.
Incoming
energy
Kyoto
Protocol

Energa
entrante
Protocolo de
Kyoto

Landslide

Movimiento
de masa

Mean Sea
Level (MSL)

Nivel medio
del mar
(MSL)

Measureme
nt / Gauge

Medicin

Protocolo
que
compromete
a los pases
industrializad
os a
estabilizar
las
emisiones de
gases de
efecto
invernadero.
Rapid
movement of
a mass of
soil, rock, or
debris down
a slope by
gravity.
Mean Sea
Level is
normally
defined as
the average
relative sea
level over a
period long
enough to
average out
transients
estados
transitorios
such as
waves
The act or
process
of measuring

Acceptance of
the Doha
amendment to
the Kyoto
Protocol on 1
October 2015.

http://unfccc
.int/2860.ph
p

Time runs out in

desperate dig for
survivors in
Guatemala lands
lide

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

Global mean sea

levels are
projected to
gradually rise in
response to
greenhouse
warming.

Latest
measurement:
June 2015

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
ital-

signs/sealevel/
Melting
land ice

NASAs
Goddard
Space
Flight
Center

Deshielo de
los
casquetes
polares,
deshielo de
las masas
glaciares,
deshielo de
los polos
Centro de
vuelo
espacial
Goddard

a field of ice
adhering to
the coast,
in distinction
from a floe.

the added water

from melting
land ice and the
expansion of sea
water as it
warms.

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/sealevel/

Credit: NASA

Home to the

Goddard

US's largest

Space Flight

organization of

Center

scientists,

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/sealevel/

engineers and
technologists
who build
spacecraft,
instruments and
new technology
to study Earth,
the sun, our
solar system and
Nitrous
oxide (N2O)

xido nitroso
(N2O)

North
Atlantic
Oscillation
(NAO)

Oscilacin
del Atlntico
Norte (OAN)

A powerful
greenhouse
gas emitted
through soil
cultivation
practices,
especially
the use of
commercial
and organic
fertilizers,
fossil-fuel
combustion,
nitric acid
production,
and biomass
burning.
The North
Atlantic
Oscillation
consists of

the universe.
A sport utility
vehicle drifted
into the path of
a semi-truck and
inside police
found two tanks
of nitrous oxide.

The North
Atlantic
Oscillation is a
phenomenon

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-terms-

opposing
variations of
barometric
pressure
near Iceland
and near the
Azores.

where highs and

lows interact
with each other
in the winter and
greatly impact
the climate.

en.pdf

Stratosphere
slayer in
which the
concentratio
n of ozone is
greatest.
While
309,000
square miles
(800,000
square
kilometers)
regrew
during that
period
Satellite
data: 1993Present

Thirty years ago,

in 1985, we were
shocked by the
discovery of the
hole in the ozone
layer.
to grow (as a
missing part)
anew

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

Information
obtained from a
manufactured
object or vehicle
intended to orbit
the earth, the
moon, or
another celestial
body
Sea level rise is
caused primarily
by two factors
related to global
warming
The seawall at
Edisto Beach has
been breached,
resulting in
heavy flooding.

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/sealevel/

Over a century,
the lower growth
rate of trees
after a drought

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-terms-

Outgoing
energy
Ozone layer

Energa
saliente
Capa de
ozono

Regrow

Volver a
crecer,
regenerarse

Satellite
data

Datos de
satlite

Sea level

Nivel del mar

The average
height of the
seas surface

Seawall

Muro marino

Semi-arid
regions

Regiones
semiridas

A humanmade wall or
embankment
along a
shore to
prevent
wave
erosion.
Ecosystems
that have
more than
250 mm

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/forestcover/

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/sealevel/
https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

precipitation
per year but
are not
highly
productive;
usually
classified as
rangelands
pastizales
Shift

Variacin

Sink

Sumidero

Snowpacks

Paquetes de
nieve

Solar-power
plant

Central
solar/trmica
solar/termos
olar

Sustained
Target

Prolongado
Objetivo

Tide

Marea

Any process,
activity or
mechanism
that removes
a
greenhouse
gas, an
aerosol, or a
precursor of
a
greenhouse
gas or
aerosol from
the
atmosphere.
A seasonal
accumulatio
n of slowmelting
snow.
Instalacin
que
aprovecha la
energa del
sol para
producir
electricidad.
A goal to be
achieved

the alternate
rising and
falling of the
surface of
the ocean

in semi-arid
regions will
remove 1.6
gigatons less
carbon dioxide
than predicted.

Climate change
is a long-term
shift in weather
conditions
A new study
found that the
Southern Ocean
has become a
large sinkof
massive
greenhouse gase
s.

en.pdf

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

Climate change
causing
low snowpack le
vel in Sierra
Nevada
And so are the
operators of
solar-power
plants in India

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf
http://climat
e.nasa.gov/n
ews/2271/

The economywide emission

reduction
targets.

http://unfccc
.int/2860.ph
p

The second
chart, derived
from coastal tide
gauge data,

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/sealevel/

and of water
bodies.

shows how much

sea level
changed from
about 1870 to

Time scales
(long-term
and shortterm)

Escalas
temporales
(a largo y a
corto plazo)

UN
Framework
convention
on climate
change
UNFCCC

Convencin
marco de las
Naciones
Unidas sobre
el Cambio
Climtico CMNUCC
Vector

Vector

Weather
conditiones

Condiciones
meteorolgic
as

Wildfire

Fuego
incontrolado

Wind farm

Campo
elico,
parque
elico

Wind
turbine

Molino de
viento

2000.
The earth's
climate is
naturally
variable on all
time scales
http://www.u
n.org/es/clim
atechange/k
yoto.shtml

An organism,
such as an
insect, that
transmits a
pathogen
from one
host to
another

The causes
of this loss
include
deforestation
, wildfires,
windstorms
and insects.
An area of
land with a
cluster of
wind
turbines for
driving
electrical
generators
A winddriven

The Alameda
County Vector C
ontrol Services
District reports
that a bat
testing positive
for rabies was
found in a
residential yard
near Fairlands
Climate change
is a long-term
shift in weather
conditions
a sweeping and
destructive
conflagration
especially in
a wilderness or a
rural area

https://www.
ipcc.ch/pdf/g
lossary/taripcc-termsen.pdf

[] is that a
good wind farm
[]

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/n
ews/2271/

an area of land
with a cluster of

http://www.
merriam-

http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/forestcover/

Windstorm

Huracn

turbine for
generating
electricity
The causes
of this loss
include
deforestation
, wildfires,
windstorms
and insects.

wind turbines for

driving electrical
generators
a storm marked
by high wind
with little or no
precipitation

webster.com
/dictionary/w
ind%20farm
http://climat
e.nasa.gov/v
italsigns/forestcover/