In the past we used to have regular 10-year climatic cycles which were always followed by a major drought.

在过去我们习惯了每十年一次大的干旱的气候循环周期。

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We observed a clear periodicity in the number of whales stranded each year that coincides with a major climatic cycle.

我们观察到每年搁浅的鲸鱼数量有明显的周期性，这与一个主要的气候周期相吻合。

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NASA’s temperature series and another compiled by the U.S. National Climatic Data Center currently have 2005 as the warmest calendar year on record.

美国国家航空和航天局的温度数据系列和另一由美国国家气候数据中心得出的温度数据最近都把2005年作为有记录的历年来最热的。

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By the year 1300, however, the climatic good times were coming to an end.

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Natural climate variability, from seasonal to multi-year scale, has produced significant effects in the Latin American countries, which suggests that climatic change projections constitute an important element for national and regional planning.

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There are indications of this in some of the e-mails from and to the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that were released on to the web late last year.

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