9 more items of vital vocabulary you will need in 2023

9 more items of vital vocabulary you’ll need to know in 2023

Excerpts from the Economist Nov. 14th 2022

"Tactical nuclear weapons"

"These tend to have shorter ranges and lower yields than city-busting “strategic” weapons, such as icbms"

"Frozen conflict"

"A frozen conflict is a military stand-off in which actual combat has ceased"

"Regasification"

"Cooling natural gas down to -162°C turns it into a liquid and reduces its volume 600-fold, enabling it to be transported over long distances using special, cryogenically cooled tanker ships"

"Aridification"

"In some places scientists and officials now talk instead of aridification, or the long-term drying of a region."

"Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions"

"Scope 1 emissions are those directly caused by a company’s activities" "Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions" "Scope 3 emissions are all other emissions that arise from the activities of a company’s suppliers and customers"

"Resilience hubs and cool pavements"

"Dead pool"

"Should Lake Powell hit dead pool, water supplies would dwindle for the 40m people across the south-west who depend on the Colorado River for water"

"Synfuels and e-fuels"

"Electrofuels or e-fuels are synfuels made using renewable energy."

"Productivity paranoia"

"But only 12% of bosses had full confidence that their teams were being productive. The result is “productivity paranoia”

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