The first question has aclear answer: Yes, we probably could. Spacecraft, including the ones nowexploring Mars, have found evidence that it was warm in its youth, with riversdraining into vast seas.

通过宇宙飞船发回的数据（包括目前正在火星探测的飞行器在内），我们已经发现有证据可以表明，在火星形成初期，它的气候温和，有一段时间曾有河流流入汪洋大海的迹象。

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What was the creature that swallowed Jonah, given that whales are not given to swimming in warm, southern seas?

如果鲸鱼在温暖的南部海域是不存在的，那么吞掉约拿的生物又是什么？

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Natural forces such as El nino warm some seas and cool others, but every major ocean is hotter than in the 1950s.

厄尔尼诺等自然力量使某些海洋升温，某些海洋降温，但各大主要海洋与二十世纪五十年代时相比都变暖了。

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But burning less oil to keep air cool so ice stays ice and the seas don't warm is too expensive and roundabout a way to meet the danger, Mr Mendelsohn thinks.

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The prominent, late scientist Joanne Simpson developed some of the first mathematical models of clouds in an attempt to better understand how hurricanes draw power from warm seas.

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