Smart Tech and Climate Change - 6 Minute English

Improve your English vocabulary and listening in just six minutes! Smart technology is becoming more and more commonplace in people’s homes, but coulld it help with the fight against climate change? With many people now trying to reduce their carbon footprint, is AI the answer? That’s what Sam and Neil talk about, as they teach you related vocabulary. This week’s question: How many tonnes of carbon dioxide are humans responsible for emitting into the atmosphere every year? a) 30 billion b) 40 billion c) 50 billion Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabulary dig something up excavate; remove something from the ground intermittent irregular; not continuous blackouts periods of time without electricity or energy in real time no delay; live machine learning way computers learn and adapt based on collated data simulate produce a computer model To download the audio and a transcript, go to: [Cover: Getty Images] More 6 Minute English episodes: Going through the menopause ’I love my language!’ Making sense of the census How can we make the web a better place? ​​ Learn to talk about broken hearts in 6 minutes! ​​ Coronavirus vs other pandemics ​​ #bbclearningenglish #learnenglish #climatechange #technology #artificialintelligence