昨天,印度环境部长拉梅什对记者说,气候变化将导致喜马拉雅山冰川在2035年前彻底融化的断言没有事实根据。
Yesterdaythe Indian environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, told reporters theclaim that climate change would cause Himalayan glaciers to melt awayby 2035 was unfounded.
自工业化时代刚开始以来,不到1摄氏度的升温引起的环境变化是令人可怕、出人意料的,其中包括冰川消融和前所未有的珊瑚礁退化。
Less than one degree Celsius of warming since the pre-industrial age has unleashed frightening and unforeseen change, including glacier-melt and unprecedented coral-reef degradation.
无论怎样,在冰川下埋藏之后,苔藓复活说明随着环境的变化,有些生命能够复苏。但恢复消失的冰川本身却是更棘手的问题。
Nevertheless, this resurrection after ice entombment displays the resiliency of some life as conditions change. But restoring the disappearing ice itself, well, that's a far trickier matter.
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