What the proxy records make abundantly clear is that there have been significant natural changes in the climate over timescales longer than a few thousand years.

代理记录充分表明的是，气候在比几千年更长的时间跨度内发生了重大的自然变化。

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We compile thousands of such records every year and with the information recorded we're able to see what is happening in the natural world around us.

我们每年编辑几千个这样的记录，而且由于记录的信息，我们能够看到我们周围的自然世界里正在发生的事情。

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Before that, most parts of the world did not keep consistent, long-term records of natural events, and the oceans, two-thirds of the globe, were largely deserted.

在此之前，在世界大多数地区，人们没有持续、长期的自然现象记录，占地球三分之二的洋面更是一片空白。

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Moving into data from the past, though, brings the argument to one of the areas that blog-based doubters have chosen as a preferred battleground: the temperature record of the past millennium, as construed from natural records that are both sensitive to temperature and capable of precise dating.

ECONOMIST: The science of climate change

As a consequence of the non-local nature of this natural information storage, the destruction of many storage locations still leaves some records remaining.

FORBES: Storing Information for a Thousand Years