The suddenness of storms in that climate is something almost preternatural.
在那地带，突起的风暴几乎是件不可思议的事。
Our street consisted mainly of mobile homes with small yards, but grass was difficult to grow in that climate, especially with the many children and dogs romping through the neighborhood.
街道两边主要是带有小型庭园的移动房屋，不过由于气候的原因，尤其是许多顽童还有狗四处乱跑，所以青草很难生长。
First, a climate conducive to life on Earth depends upon the extraordinarily narrow orbital parameters that define a continuously habitable zone where water can exist in a liquid state.
首先，地球上适宜生命存在的气候取决于极其狭窄的轨道参数，这些参数定义了一个持续可居住的地带，在那里水可以以液态存在。
It's neither aliens nor a rare disease that will threaten the human race in the future, but climate change.
未来威胁人类的不是外星人，也不是罕见的疾病，而是气候变化。
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。
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。
It is important to note that other factors, such as volcanic particulates or variations in the amount of sunlight received by the Earth, could potentially have affected the climate.
必须指出的是，其他因素，如火山微粒或地球接收到的阳光量的变化，可能已经潜在地影响了气候。
One of the effects of climate change in New Zealand is that there will be more extreme weather.
气候变化在新西兰的影响之一是会有更多的极端天气。
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。
A Google Ngram Viewer chart shows that by 1993 climate change was already more commonly used in books than global warming.
一张谷歌词频统计图显示，到1993年时，在各类书中，气候变化这一词的使用频率就已经超过全球变暖。
What we do know is that as we include longer time intervals, the record shows increasing evidence of slow swings in climate between different regimes.
我们已经了解到的情况是，随着我们纳入的时间跨度变长，这一记录提供了越来越多的证据表明气候在不同的统治期存在缓慢的波动。
Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change.
报告称，除了造成死亡外，气候变化还使3.25亿人的生活受到严重影响，主要是生活在贫穷国家的人。
Moreover, there are processes that influence climate, such as modifications in land use, that scientists do not know how to simulate.
此外，还有一些影响气候的过程，如科学家们不知道如何模拟的土地利用的变化。
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。
So take another look at this drawing, and you can imagine how this design might be particularly helpful in that kind of climate.
所以再看一下这幅图，你就可以想象这种设计是如何在那种气候下特别有用的。
That takes the focus away from the natural variations in the earth climate, like the Ice Age, right?
那就把人们的注意力从地球气候的自然变化上转移开了，比如冰河时代，对吧？
We also know that the global climate system is immensely complicated and that everything is in some way connected, and so the system is capable of fluctuating in unexpected ways.
我们还知道，全球气候系统极其复杂，一切都以某种方式联系在一起，因此，这个系统能够以意想不到的方式波动。
Data from diverse sources, including geochemical evidence preserved in seafloor sediments, indicate that the Late Cretaceous climate was very mild.
来自不同来源的数据，包括保存在海底沉积物中的地球化学证据，都表明晚白垩世的气候非常温和。
Data from diverse sources, including geochemical evidence preserved in seafloor sediments, indicate that the Late Cretaceous climate was milder than today's.
来自不同来源的数据，包括存留在海底沉积物中的地球化学依据，表明晚白垩纪的气候比如今的要温和。
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。
I would argue that we need to develop the science specifically to understand the likely impacts of climate change in different contexts.
我认为我们需要具体发展科学来理解气候变化在不同情况下可能产生的影响。
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。
Recent polls by the Pew Research Centre in Washington D.C., found that 75-80 percent of participants regarded climate change as an important issue.
华盛顿皮尤研究中心最近的民意调查发现，75%至80%的受访者认为气候变化是一项重要问题。
Recent polls by the Pew Research Centre in Washington, DC, found that 75-80 percent of participants regarded climate change as an important issue.
华盛顿皮尤研究中心最近的民意调查发现，75%至80%的参与者认为气候变化是一个重要问题。
Many scientists believe that El Nino events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.
许多科学家认为，由于气候变化，太平洋变暖引起的厄尔尼诺现象正愈演愈烈。
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。
A midge, named Culicoide, carries bluetongue, a devastating livestock disease that is moving northwards in Europe due to climate change.
蝙蝠吃一种叫做Culicoides 的蠓，它携带蓝舌病，蓝舌病是一种毁灭性的牲畜疾病，由于气候变化，它正在向欧洲北部转移。
There is mounting evidence that the frequency and magnitude of landsliding is changing in many parts of the world in response to climate change.
越来越多的证据表明，响应气候的变化，世界许多地区的滑坡发生的频率和程度正在发生变化。
He feared that a map in the atlas could pull climate scientists into another vortex of damaging controversy.
他担心新闻评述会同地图集里的地图一道，将气象学家们拉入另一个破坏性争议的漩涡之中。
In the process of formation, the material must have received an environmental signal that reflects a change in climate and that can be deciphered by modern physical or chemical means.
在形成的过程中，材料必须接收到环境信号，反映气候变化，并能被现代物理或化学手段破译。
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