Getting people to care about a climate threat that is decades away is hard enough, they say, without adding in the vagaries of natural climate cycles.

他们说，让人们关心数十年以后的气候威胁实在是太困难了，更何况自然气候循环本身也是变幻难测。

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Set up in 1982, the Weather Channel was given just weeks to survive by its critics, but such is the interest in the vagaries of the climate that it has thrived.

天气频道成立于1982年，(成立之初)批评家们只给了它几个星期的试播时间，但是也正是这个使得这个频道在变幻莫测的天气中得以兴盛起来。

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Eking out a living is tough, and the vagaries of climate that bring drought or floods can easily wipe away in a few days the gains of many years.

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