The article advances a new theory to explain changes in the climate.
这篇文章提出了一个解释气候变化的新理论。
Changes in climate before that period caused severe fluctuation in sea level, resulting in the extinction of the dinosaurs.
在此之前，气候的变化导致了海平面的剧烈波动，恐龙因此灭绝。
Changes in climate before the Cretaceous period caused severe fluctuation in sea level, resulting in the extinction of the dinosaurs.
白垩纪以前的气候变化导致了海平面的剧烈波动，引发了恐龙的灭绝。
Climate change will fuel the growth of phytoplankton in some areas, while reducing it in other spots, leading to changes in the ocean's appearance.
气候变化将加速某些地区浮游植物的生长，同时减少其他地区的浮游植物，导致海洋的外观发生变化。
The idea that these changes affect climate was first advanced by James Croll in the late 1800s.
这些变化影响气候的观点最早是由詹姆斯·克罗尔在19世纪末提出的。
Clearing bush by itself won't help much if changes in climate are largely responsible for increasingly severe forest fires.
如果气候变化才是森林火灾日益严重的主要原因，那么清除灌木丛本身是没有多大帮助的。
These animals were not as sensitive to climate changes in the Cretaceous period as they are today.
这些动物在白垩纪对气候变化不像今天这样敏感。
Bones disintegrate, the land erodes, the climate changes, forests come and go, rivers change their course — and history, if not destroyed, is steadily concealed.
骨头分解，土地侵蚀，气候变化，森林重生，河流改道——而历史，如果没有被摧毁，也会被逐渐掩盖。
Periodic changes in Earth's orbit could affect Earth's climate.
地球轨道的周期性变化会影响地球的气候。
Reconstructing the climate changes of the past is extremely difficult, because systematic weather observations began only a few centuries ago, in Europe and North America.
重建过去的气候变化是极其困难的，因为在欧洲和北美，几个世纪前才开始系统的天气观测。
These changes in the planet's motions, they caused the climate to change.
这些行星运动的变化，导致了气候的变化。
These changes in the planet's motions caused the climate to change; but it was also compounded.
行星运动中的这些改变造成了气候变化，但这也是很复杂的。
Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's Center for Global Change Science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.
麻省理工学院全球变化科学中心的科学家StephanieDutkiewicz 建立了一个气候模型，预测了整个世纪的海洋变化。
Bond hypothesized that the alternating cycles might be evidence of changes in ocean-water circulation and therefore in Earth's climate.
邦德推测，这种交替循环可能是海-水间循环变化的证据，因此也会影响地球的气候。
Information on temperature, rainfall, and other aspects of the climate that can be inferred from the systematic changes in properties is usually referred to as proxy data.
关于温度、降雨量和气候的其他方面的信息可以从性质的系统变化中推断出来，这些信息通常被称为代理数据。
We know that over the past millennia the climate has undergone major changes without any significant human intervention.
我们知道，在过去的几千年里，气候在没有任何大型的人为干预之下发生了剧大变化。
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。
As the earth's climate changes and rainfall becomes even less predictable in some places, those answers will grow even more valuable.
地球气候发生变化，部分地区的降雨变得更加难以预测，所以这些答案将变得更有价值。
What this study suggests is that the speed of climate shifts and the magnitude of the changes required to adapt could be much greater.
这项研究表明，气候变化的速度和适应气候变化所需的改变幅度可能要大得多。
Now it is generally believed that the sample from Devil's Hole corresponds to variations in local climate, in the western United States, rather than global climate changes.
现在人们普遍认为魔鬼洞的样本与美国西部当地气候的变化有关，而不是全球气候的变化。
In fact, the pattern of climate change in the past reveals that Earth's climate will almost certainly go through dramatic changes in the future even without the influence of human activity.
事实上，过去的气候变化模式表明，即使没有人类活动的影响，地球的气候几乎肯定会在未来经历剧烈的变化。
NASA used the term "climate change" because it more accurately reflects the wide range of changes to the planet caused by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
美国国家航空航天局之所以使用“气候变化”这个词，是因为这个词更准确地反映出由于大气中温室气体总量增多而对地球造成的大范围变化。
Climate change is the long-term changes in the world's weather patterns that are mostly caused by human activity.
气候变化是世界气候模式的长期变化，主要是由人类活动造成的。
With the changes in the world's climate, dinosaurs died, but many smaller animals lived on. It was the survival of the fittest.
随着世界气候的变迁，恐龙绝迹了，但许多较小的动物却继续活了下来。这就是适者生存。
Changes in climate may lead to flooding of the coastal areas.
气候的变化会导致该地沿海地区的洪水泛滥。
How changes in regional climate patterns will be felt elsewhere is harder to predict.
地区气候模式的变化在别处将会如何被感觉到仍难以预测。
And there might be drastic changes in the climate of some regions as ocean currents shift.
随着洋流的变动，一些地区的气候将会产生急剧的变化。
Whereas the cheetah evolved for maximum aerodynamics, its genetic uniformity made the species extremely vulnerable to changes in climate and environment.
尽管猎豹进化的超符合空气动力学，但是它的基因不幸的让它很容易死于气候和环境的变化。
Oregon is projected to have more high-pressure days as the climate changes.
随着气候的变化，俄勒冈州将会有更多的高压天气。
Oregon is projected to have more high-pressure days as the climate changes.
随着气候的变化，俄勒冈州将会有更多的高压天气。
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