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。
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。
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。
"The way species reacted to changes in climate and habitat is so different," he says.
他指出：“对于气候和栖息地变化，各物种的应对是如此的不同。”
But no humans had yet set foot in the Americas, and it needed major changes in climate before they could.
然后仍旧没有任何人类踏足到美洲的土地上，事实上只有到气候产生了重要变化之后，这种时机才能成熟。
Global warming refers to an average increase in the Earth's temperature, which in turn causes changes in climate.
全球变暖指的是地球平均温度升高，从而导致气候变化。
Agriculture is the sector most affected by changes in climate patterns and will be increasingly vulnerable in the future.
农业是受气候规律变化影响最大的部门，而且在未来会越来越脆弱。
We had crossed a continent and through dusty Windows, we'd seen gradual changes in climate, vegetation, topography and architecture.
我们已经穿越了大陆，透过灰蒙蒙的车窗，我们见证了渐变的天气、植被、地貌和建筑。
Topographic data are critical to global changes in climate, land formations, atmospheric changes, and research in soil and water loss.
地形数据对于我们了解全球气候变化、土地构成、大气变化，开展区域水土流失研究非常重要。
Because of the changes in climate and increase in farming, some places will be drier and people will not be able to produce enough food.
由于气候的变化和开垦的加剧，一些地方将变得越来越干，人们将不能够生产足够的食物。
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。
Longer term changes in climate affect the viability and health of ecosystems, influencing shifts in the distribution of plants, pathogens, animals, and even human settlements.
较长期的气候变化可影响生态系统的生存能力和健康，使植物、病原体、动物、甚至人类住区的分布状况发生变化。
In the water sector, water managers inherently have to deal with variability and uncertainty, but what's new is the increased level of uncertainty due to the changes in climate.
在水行业内部，水资源管理者本来就必须要应对水资源的变化和不稳定问题，但他们面临的新问题是气候变化导致的不稳定性增加问题。
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.
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。
The researchers foundthat as long as the grounding line is on the outer rise of the sea bed, before the lip, small changes in climate lead to correspondingly smallchanges in the glacier's ice volume.
研究人员发现只要地平线处于海床的外部隆起处，在裂缝增加之前，气候的轻微变化就会相应导致冰川体积的微妙变化。
The analysis of spatial and temporal variations of air temperature, precipitation, and sunshine hours will be helpful to rational prediction of changes in climate, and corresponding decision-making.
对温度、降水和日照时数时空变化规律的分析有助于对未来气候变化做出合理的预测，并制定相应的对策。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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