--- title: Climate: hot summers and hot arguments — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Weather is what the sky does today; climate is the usual weather of a place over thirty years or more. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / Climate: hot summers and hot arguments # Climate: hot summers and hot arguments Lesson 21 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/0/) — Weather is what the sky does today; climate is the usual weather of a place over thirty years or more. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/1/) — Scientists widely report that the whole world's average temperature has been rising, mostly because people burn coal, oil and gas. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/2/) — Picture a bath with the hot tap dripping: one splash can still feel cold, but the water slowly gets warmer. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/3/) — That is how a warming world can still have a freezing week in Chicago and a record 40 degrees in England. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/4/) — Most of the arguing is not about whether it is getting warmer but about what to do: how fast to change cars, power stations and farms, who pays, and what happens to people whose jobs depend on oil, gas and coal. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/5/) — Each side has its best case. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/6/) — Some say act fast, because waiting makes it worse and costlier; others say go carefully, because jobs, bills and reliable power matter too. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/7/) — Many say a bit of both. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/9/) — In July 2022 the UK recorded over 40 degrees Celsius for the first time ever, news reports said. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/10/) — Weather is what happens today; climate is the usual weather of a place over thirty years or more, so one cold day does not cancel a warming century. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/11/) — Scientists widely report that the planet's average temperature has been rising, mostly because burning coal, oil and gas puts warming gases into the air. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/12/) — Hotter, drier years make bushfire seasons longer and fiercer, scientists said, and fire experts say clearing dry undergrowth matters too; both can be true at once. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/13/) — Electric cars run on batteries and give off no exhaust gases on the road, but they can cost more to buy, and charging can be hard on long trips or when towing. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/14/) — Coal, oil and gas, called fossil fuels, give many people jobs and heat homes, and they are also the main source of the warming gases. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/15/) — In 2015 almost every country signed the Paris Agreement, promising to try to keep warming well under 2 degrees and ideally 1.5; news reports say the world is not yet on track. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/17/) — Cows burp methane, a strong warming gas; New Zealand planned to charge farmers for it, then delayed the plan after farmers objected, it was reported. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/18/) — In 2022 two protesters threw tomato soup at Van Gogh's «Sunflowers» in London; the painting was behind glass and was not damaged, news reports said. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/19/) — Greta Thunberg began a school strike outside Sweden's parliament in 2018, and millions of young people joined climate strikes, it was reported. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/21-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments/20/) — Solar panels make power only when the sun shines, so countries are building big batteries and arguing about how fast to close coal and gas power stations. - ← previous: [Healthcare: who pays when you are ill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/) - next →: [Guns, school safety and arguments about schools](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/22-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)