社区对气候变化的反应如何？
只有在全球气温变化开始和海平面反应之间的短暂滞后期间，适应气候变化的物种才能从赤道向高纬度地区迁移。
Only during the short lag between onset of global temperature change and sea level response can warm-adapted species migrate from the equator toward higher latitudes.
根据一组心理学家团队的研究，人们消耗资源和节育的方式影响了其对气候变暖的反应。
How people choose to consume resources and use contraception influences their responses to climate change, according to a team of psychologists.
这个会议组织者是气候反应基金会，这是一个非盈利性地球工程的支持者。
The meeting is organized by the Climate Response Fund, a nonprofit supporter of geoengineering research.
反应器建筑是整个核能源厂的外壳性建筑，以便保持厂内恒温，不受外界气候变化影响。
The reactor building is an outer shell that is supposed to keep the weather out, but nothing in.
这一原则也说明，我们应当对气候变化所做出的反应并不仅是衡量收益与成本的问题，尽管部分上是这样。
This same principle also tells us that what we should do about climate change is not just a matter of weighing benefits against costs-although it is partly that.
从科学角度看，更为糟糕的是：受绑和未受绑的企鹅对于气候变化的反应各不相同，当食物很少时，受绑的企鹅表现出晚育特征。
What's worse from a scientific standpoint: banded and unbanded penguins respond differently to climate changes, with the banded birds showing up even later to breed when food is scarce.
除了过去二十年被人类观察之外，关于这些代表多样化的绿洲，我们所知甚少，例如他们的年龄，以及他们对气候变化的反应。
Except for in-person observations made over the last two decades, little definitive was known about these oases of diversity, like their age or how they might respond to changes in climate.
小的岛国和其他因气候变化引起的一系列反应中首当其冲的国家想要制定硬性指标以及继续履行京都议定书。
Small island states and others on the frontlines of the consequences of climate change want hard targets and the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol.
然而，基思的计划更加灵活，它要求建立反应塔，可以部署在世界土地、气候和人工成本最优的任何地方。
Keith's plan, however, is more mobile, calling for towers that could be deployed wherever in the world land, climate, and labor costs are optimal.
其他研究小组基于气候系统自身不同的物理反应，预测了各种结果的可能性。
Other research groups have estimated the probabilities of various outcomes, based on variations in the physical response of the climate system itself.
卡尔德拉说：“这些结果真正表明了植物对二氧化碳作出何种反应对产生准确气候预测是十分重要的。”
"These results really show that how plants respond to carbon dioxide is very important for making good climate predictions," says Caldeira.
气候变化会使世界成为一个越来越不安全的环境，而军事力量将不得不作出相应反应。
Climate change will make the world an increasingly unsafe place and military capabilities will have to respond accordingly.
要弄清事实的真相人们还得先弄清楚一个尚未明了的科学问题：气候对于碳排量的反应到底有多快？
The truth is shrouded by a big scientific unknown: how quickly does climate respond to changes in carbon levels?
研究表明，地球气候可能有很多种基于反馈周期的说法，这意味着全球变暖会引起气候变化质的反应。
The research indicates that Earth's climate may have multiple states based on this feedback cycle, meaning that the climate could change qualitatively in response to the effects of global warming.
奥曼和他的同事使用宇航局的一台计算机模拟器，提出了地区性的核战争引发的冲天大火、漫天烟尘，这时气候会有何反应的模型。
Using a NASA computer simulation, Oman and colleagues model the climate's response to the smoke from fires brought about by regional nuclear war.
多亏了达尔文的呼吁，奇灵厄姆牛的记录持续了150年，如今的分析发现这种牛对气候变化做出了生育反应，只不过在冬季出生的牛犊死亡率也提高了。
Thanks to Darwin, records on Chillingham cattle go back 150 years, and show a breeding response to climate change resulting in more winter calf deaths.
植物和动物通常会对冬天气温上升作出反应——但并不能分辨是气候变化带来的的温暖，还是由于城市化进程加快同样会导致的气候变暖。
Plants and animals often respond to rising winter temperatures -- whether due to climate change or to increased urbanization, which also causes warming.
尼古拉斯爵士称，在接手这项工作之前，他对气候变化问题也不甚了解。如今，他的调查报告公之于众，看起来该报告经过精心设计，意在逼迫美国对气候变化问题做出积极反应。
Sir Nicholas, who says he had no views on climate change before taking the job, has come up with a report that looks perfectly designed to push America's buttons.
科学家们也想弄明白，在500万年前，地球气候变冷，由“温室”变成“冰室”的时候，当地的森林出现了怎样的反应。
The scientists also want to get a better idea of how the local forest responded as the planet cooled around five million years ago, changing from "greenhouse" to "icehouse" conditions.
如果在种非常滞后的南部海洋升温反应在其它的气候模型模拟中也出现，那么可能会改变人们对一种主流的、旨在抑制南极洲冰层融化的地球工程战略的看法。
IMAGE: From the Canadian Earth System Model, simulations show a slight cooling of the Northern Hemisphere and warming of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
如果说2009年的环境政策被12月进行的哥本哈根气候变化问题谈判的连锁反应所主导的话，那么2010年的环境政策则会由哥本哈根公布的分析报告所主导。
If environmental politics in 2009 were dominated by the build-up to the December Copenhagen climate-change negotiations, in 2010 they will be dominated by post-Copenhagen analysis.
将气候改变问题作为娱乐产品开发的灵感反应出这一议题已经渗透到全球文化中，这无疑是件好事，地球的朋友(Friendsof Earth)组织的气候问题负责人MikeChilds认为。
Using climate change as inspiration for entertainment shows the issue has permeated global culture, which can only be a good thing, Friends of the Earth's head of climate Mike Childs said.
例如，我们对气候变化作出反应的力度必须与问题的严重程度相匹配。
Our response to climate change, for instance, must be bold enough to match the scope of the problem.
报告称，现在采取的行动对几十年后的气候影响甚微，主要因为气候本身需要一个相当长的反应时间。
Rather, the report says, actions taken now will have little impact for decades, mainly because the climate has exceptionally long response times.
理解大自然对气候变化有怎样的反应需要监视世界各个角落的关键生命周期事件一一花开、叶子的出现、青蛙第一声呼唤春天的鸣叫。
Understanding how nature responds to climate change will require monitoring key life cycle events - flowering, the appearance of leaves, and the first frog calls of the spring - all around the world.
理解大自然对气候变化有怎样的反应需要监视世界各个角落的关键生命周期事件一一花开、叶子的出现、青蛙第一声呼唤春天的鸣叫。
Understanding how nature responds to climate change will require monitoring key life cycle events - flowering, the appearance of leaves, and the first frog calls of the spring - all around the world.
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