到目前为止,很少有专家预测出了精确的数字,但是一些统计数据也表明了气候变化可以造成的危害程度。
As yet, few experts have predicted specific Numbers, but some statistics suggest the scale of the harm that climate change will cause.
气候变化对健康具有众多危害,就是一个明显的例子。
Climate change, with its multiple dangers for health, is one clear example.
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?
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.
它们特别容易受到害虫、疾病和气候变化的危害。
They are particularly vulnerable to pests, disease and climate change.
简练地提出关注的核心问题,就是气候变化从各个基本方面危害健康。
The core concern is succinctly stated: climate change endangers health in fundamental ways.
不过这就遗留下一种危害——妥协会产生“旧车补贴”法案——对减缓气候变化,革新旧经济体,推动新经济体几乎无济于事。
There remains a danger, however, that compromise will produce a clunker of a bill-one that does little to slow climate change, little to revive the old economy and little to boost a new one.
最贫困的人们受气候变化的危害越早越大。
The poorest will be hit first and hardest by climate change.
问题是:气候变化的危害到底有多严重?
The question is: how bad is said climate change going to get?
长远地看,气候变化比当前金融危机的危害更大。我们现在就应该引起重视。
In the long run, climate change is an even greater risk than the current financial crisis, and we need to address it now.
那些考虑气候变化会带来总体危害的人不用浪费时间去担心气候对疟疾的影响。
Those thinking about the overall danger that climate change represents should not spend their time worrying about its impact on malaria.
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。
Economists, said Yohe, can quantify what it takes to protect people from storm damage made more intense by climate change.
根据一月份递交给爱荷华州立法院和管理人员的州气候变化报告中所述,2007的暴风雨极具破坏性,危害严重的暴风雨时常发生。
The 2007 storm was exceptionally damaging, but severe storms are becoming more frequent, according to a state report on climate change submitted in January to the Iowa Legislature and governor.
生态系统也会发现自己受气候变化影响,对许多濒危物种的危害会比远超过生物进化所带来的危害。
Ecosystems will find themselves subject to climates far removed from those they evolved in, endangering many species.
为了提高人们对气候变化的危害宣传是一件非常有意义的事情。
To increase publicity about the hazards of climate change is a very meaningful thing.
此外,气候年复一年,甚至十年又十年的自然变化与人为的气候变化混合在一起,使我们更难找准其危害行为。
Moreover, year-to-year and even decade-to-decade natural variations in climate are intermixed with human-induced climate change, making it even more difficult to target damaging behaviour.
减少对环境的危害已经减缓气候变化不只是少购买耗能的产品,更多的是要从生活方式来改变。
Reducing our environmental impact and slowing down climate change is not just about buying less and changing the products we buy to less energy-intensive ones, but also about lifestyle changes.
因此,提高对气候变化的危害宣传是一件非常有意义的事情。
Therefore, increasing publicity about the hazards of climate change is a very meaningful thing.
尼克尔斯说最近的上百起火灾不能归咎于全球变暖,但气候变化的效应加剧了这些火灾的危害。
Global warming cannot be blamed for starting the hundreds of recent fires, but the effects of climate change worsen their violence, Nicholls said.
但是我们需要行动地更加迅速——因为气候变化已经开始危害西部地区,它们正与干旱作斗争,同时沿海城市也被受洪灾困扰。
But we have to act with more urgency - because a changing climate is already harming western communities struggling with drought, and coastal cities dealing with floods.
但是我们需要行动地更加迅速——因为气候变化已经开始危害西部地区,它们正与干旱作斗争,同时沿海城市也被受洪灾困扰。
But we have to act with more urgency - because a changing climate is already harming western communities struggling with drought, and coastal cities dealing with floods.
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