The famine turned the normal modulation of climate into disaster.

饥荒将正常的气候变化演变成了灾难。

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"People have imagined that if we stopped emitting carbon dioxide the climate would go back to normal in 100 years, 200 years; that's not true," lead author Susan Solomon told reporters.

人们一直认为如果停止排放二氧化碳世界气候将会在100 - 200年后恢复正常。“这种想法是不正确的”研究报告的主要作者苏珊·所罗门告诉记者。

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Xiao Ziniu, director of China's National Climate Center, was quoted as saying most of north China's wheat belt was expected to receive slightly less than or nearly normal rainfall in March.

有消息称，国家气候中心主任肖子牛表示：北方大部分小麦种植地区三月份的降雨量有望同正常年份或略有减少。

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At this point, it should be deafening enough to wake up anyone still denying the reality of a new normal for our climate, our weather, and the insurance companies whose stability underlies our economy.

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The normal entrepreneur sees conventions in the investment climate, about scale, growth, rationale, that put them off having a go.

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"I think unfortunately, 2012 really may well be the new normal, " said Daniel Lashof, director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental group.

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