摘要:虽然全球变暖威胁着沿海城市,并产生极端天气,但是这种变化似乎对于一些备受关注法国葡萄园来说是个好消息。
ABSTRACT: While climate change threatens coastal cities and generates extreme weather, the effects of global warming could bring good news to some of France's most esteemed vineyards.
虽然你不会从媒体了解到这些,但近期甲烷确实对全球变暖产生了更大的影响。
Though you wouldn't know it from listening to the media, methane has been contributing to global warming more recently.
人口的增长虽然只是食品需求增长的部分原因,但是人口增长所带来的全球变暖、长期气候变化等问题仍然给农业带来了巨大的威胁。
While population growth accounts for only a modest part of the growing demand for food, it can contribute to global warming, and long-term climate change can threaten agriculture.
虽然海底甲烷排放确实令人担忧,这仅仅是冰山的一角:石油工业每天仅其日常运作就对全球变暖造成极大影响。
And while underwater methane emissions are certainly worrying, this is just the tip of the iceberg: every day, the oil industry contributes to global warming simply through its routine operations.
虽然保守者们对全球变暖与去年那可怕的风暴间的因果联系表现出极力的怀疑,但倘若克里娜式的台风再度光顾,人们的心理防线会被完全击垮。
Although conservatives have vigorously disputed the link between global warming and last year's dreadful storms, another Katrina could push people over the edge.
虽然雅各布森的模型和他自己的实验结果仍有很大不确定性,但拉马·纳坦说,他“不会排除黑碳是全球变暖的第二大因素。”
While the uncertainty in the results from Jacobson's model and his own experiments is large, Ramanathan said he "wouldn't rule out that black carbon is the second-largest global warmer."
庇古的确接受了这一点,虽然是在他相当晚年的时候,因此也不清楚他对石油和全球变暖是怎样看的。
Pigou did indeed accept thatpoint, albeit rather late in life, so it is unclear how he would have feltabout petrol and global warming.
虽然他不是一个科学家,他却拿掉了冰川退缩的证据,取而代之各种短语,暗示在全球变暖问题上尚存在严重的科学质疑(15)。
Though he is not a scientist, he had struck out evidence that glaciers were retreating and inserted phrases suggesting that there was serious scientific doubt about global warming (15).
虽然气温在不断攀升,美国地球物理学会的一份最新调查却显示美国人比以往更加不关心同全球变暖作斗争的事情。
Even as the temperature was climbing, a new survey by the American Geophysical Union found that Americans are less concerned than ever about combatting global warming.
虽然这有利于减缓全球变暖的趋势,但却增加了海洋的酸性,有可能对海洋生态系统构成灾难性威胁。
This helps slow the rate of global warming but increases ocean acidity, posing a potentially disastrous threat to Marine ecosystems.
虽然2007年IPCC的报告因为指出了全球变暖的原因而受到赞赏,但是该报告因为要达成普遍共识,出台过程比较缓慢,这导致许多新的数据没有被考虑在内。
While the IPCC reports of 2007 were praised for their recognition of the causes of global warming, the slow, consensus-based nature of the process, meant more recent data was not included.
民调显示,现在美国人更加关心全球变暖问题,虽然仍逊于欧洲人和日本人。
Polls show that Americans are gradually growing more exercised about global warming, although they are still less anxious than Europeans or Japanese.
虽然濒危的灵长类动物可能会改变自己的饮食,从而适应全球变暖所引起的一些列变化,但是谁又能知道呢?
The theatened primates could possibly adapt to the global warming-induced changes by changing their diets, but no one knows for sure.
虽然远未得到证实,但存在一种可能,就是阿森松岛正在受益于全球变暖的趋势。
One possibility, far from proved, is that Ascension is benefiting from global warming.
最近一项调查表明虽然有80%的中国青年关心全球变暖,但是大多数人没有采取行动来阻止它。
A survey recently found that although 80 percent of Chinese youths care about global warming, most of them do nothing to prevent it.
虽然“全球变暖”无疑是一个重要因素,它不是这些极端和异常天气模式的全部原因。
While global warming is undoubtedly an important factor, it does not fully account for these extreme and unusual weather patterns.
虽然变化是很细微的,但专家认为,从中能找到预示海平面上升及导致全球变暖后果的原因。
Although the change is tiny, experts say it could have implications for predicting sea-level rise and the effects of global warming.
当地村民对环境的态度和猜想虽然多少有些被神话,但也反映出在全球气候变暖中人类责任的重大。
Local villagers' attitude and rational toward the environment, though more or less deified, expresses the effects of human action on the environment.
虽然臭氧层会引起温室效应,但臭氧空洞与全球变暖实质上是两回事。
Although the ozone layer contributes to the greenhouse effect, theozone hole and global warming are actually separate issues.
虽然我不知道,这并不足以作为全球变暖的证据,却至少,是地球给我们的一个提示。
Although I don't know this is not enough to be an evidence of global warming, it is surely a warning given by the Earth.
虽然这几乎代表了返回恐龙时代的温度,二氧化碳含量和全球气候变暖很可能会继续上升甚至超过那一时代。
Although that would almost represent a return to dinosaur temperatures, carbon dioxide levels and global warming might well continue rising past that point.
虽然他还不确定确切能减少多少,但他很确信产生的效果足够对解决全球变暖产生帮助。
Exactly how big that dent would be, he is not yet sure. But he is pretty sure it would be big enough to help.
虽然他还不确定确切能减少多少,但他很确信产生的效果足够对解决全球变暖产生帮助。
Exactly how big that dent would be, he is not yet sure. But he is pretty sure it would be big enough to help.
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