If you invest dramatically more in research and development of green energy technology, however, for every dollar you spend you can probably avoid about $11 of climate damage.
这种办法实在不怎么样。而如果将更多资金投入到绿色能源技术的研发上,那么每一块钱的投入都能避免由气候危害所导致的十一块钱的损失。
Many environmentalists oppose spending public money on the technology, saying it is untested and utilities already make massive profits while driving the planet towards irreversible climate damage.
很多环保主义者反对花费公共资金在这项技术上,说它是没有经过实践检验的,公共事业公司在把这个星球推到不可挽回的气候毁坏过程中已经赚取了巨大利润。
The U.S. can, without major damage to the economy, help halt the worst effects of climate change and ensure the survival of its way of life for future generations.
美国可以在不对经济造成重大损害的情况下,帮助遏制气候变化带来的最坏影响,并确保子孙后代的生活方式得以延续。
In 2008, six Greenpeace activists were cleared of causing criminal damage at Kingsnorth Power Station after claiming they were acting to prevent the damage that would be caused by climate change.
2008年,六名在金斯诺发电站制造破坏的绿色和平组织成员,在他们宣称他们是为了预防气候变化会带来的损害时,他们被无罪开释。
Householders face higher building insurance premiums after a sharp increase in property damage blamed on climate change.
气候变化导致财产损失案急剧增加,房主则要面对此后保险费用的上涨。
Road taxes should charge drivers for four sorts of damage they do: to road surfaces, to the climate, to other people's health and to other drivers by creating jams.
道路税应当根据驾驶者在四方面造成的损害对其征收:道路表面、气候、其他人的健康以及造成拥堵给其他驾驶者带来的损害。
Some people will be surprised, even dismayed, that comparatively modest climate changes are already doing measurable damage.
有些人将感到吃惊甚至惊愕,因为不太大的气候变化已经造成了重大的损害。
The Prince of Wales is to issue a stark warning that nations have "less than 100 months to act" to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change.
查尔斯王子警告说:由于气候变暖所引起的不可挽回的损害,拯救地球,人类还剩“不到100个月”的采取行动的时间。
The Amazonian rainforest is likely to suffer catastrophic damage even with the lowest temperature rises forecast under climate change.
即使是气候变化带来的最小幅度的温度升高,也可能使亚马逊热带雨林遭受灾难性的破坏。
Climate change and damage to farmlands such as erosion or salinity.
——气候变化,侵蚀、盐碱化等耕地破坏。
On slightly firmer ground, the authors elaborate on the familiar point that most of the damage from a changing climate will be felt in poor countries.
作者用一种坚定的立场详细的阐述了同样的观点:大部分由于气候变化带来的灾难在贫穷的国家能够感受到。
The next 40 years will also have to deal with the potentially profound damage to farming from climate change, which in some parts of the world could reduce yields by one-third.
未来40年还面临气候变化对农业的深刻的损害,世界一些地区产量可能减少三分之一。
And the hope that gainers from climate change will outweigh losers looks vain: the damage from higher temperatures and erratic rainfall will be too big.
气候变化受益者多于受害者的期望也落了空:温度升高和雨量反常造成的灾害实在太大。
Economists, said Yohe, can quantify what it takes to protect people from storm damage made more intense by climate change.
气候变化使暴风雨的危害更猛烈,尤伊说经济学家可以定量算出保护人们免受危害所需的花销。
Such damage is already more common than most climate models had predicted, with the boreal belt especially hard hit.
上述这种破坏的普遍程度已经比大多数气候模型的预测结果要更加严重,而其中,针叶林带受到的打击尤为明显。
Uncertainty about the consequences of climate change makes it hard to persuade people to spend money on it, for where the damage is uncertain, so are the benefits of averting it.
气候变化后果的不确定使之很难说服人们投入大量资金。既然连危害都不得而知,利益更从何而来呢?
Ms Gillard will also have to assess the damage she and Mr Rudd caused with their decision five months ago to scrap plans for an emissions-trading scheme to fight climate change.
5个月前,陆克文和吉拉德决定搁置应对气候变化的温室气体减排计划。 而今,吉拉德必须评估当初决定所带来的影响。
For climate change, the trouble is that though few dispute that it is occurring, no one knows how severe it will be or what damage it will cause.
气候变化?尽管少有人质疑它的发生,但是没有人知道它会变得多严重或者带来多大的损害。
"Climate change is beginning to damage our natural life-support system," he says.
“气候变化已经开始破坏我们自然的生命承载系统,”他说。
Yes, the developed nations that caused much of the damage to our climate over the last century still have a responsibility to lead — and that includes the United States.
诚然,发达国家,包括美国在内,在过去的一个世纪对气候产生了很大的破坏,我们仍有义务发挥主导作用。
The earth scale change of climate has brought a new kind of natural disaster and the developed and complicated city system is holding a latent risk of expanding the damage artificially.
地球规模气候的变化带来了一种新型的自然灾害和发达和复杂的城市体系,手里拿着一个潜在风险扩大伤害人工。
Climate change is a sign that we are causing too much damage to the environment.
气候变化是我们对环境造成太大破坏的表现。
Tropical Cyclone (TC) activity is an important feature of China's climate that can have important impacts on precipitation and can cause extensive property damage.
台风活动是中国气候的重要特点之一,它能带来大量降水并造成严重的财产损失。
Climate change, species loss, pollution, water scarcity and environment damage are challenges that concern all the world's citizens, and the scale of China's problems gives them global importance.
气候变化、物种消亡、污染、水资源匮乏以及环境破坏等问题并不仅仅局限在某一国之内,而是全世界所有居民都要面临的挑战。
The high temperature of mine embodiments a estate of environmental climate in mines at present. To prevent heat damage, we should research the environment parameters in mines.
矿井高温体现了矿井目前的一种环境气候状态,要防止热害,就要研究矿井的环境参数。
The high temperature of mine embodiments a estate of environmental climate in mines at present. To prevent heat damage, we should research the environment parameters in mines.
矿井高温体现了矿井目前的一种环境气候状态,要防止热害,就要研究矿井的环境参数。
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