【外刊精选】被忽视的气候危机预兆(1)

来源:仪征中学 时间:2022-06-01
 
  • Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)
  • 60年来的气候变化警告:那些被错过(和忽视)的迹象
  • The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom
  • 在20世纪60年代,人们已经感受到了 “异常天气”的影响,但将化石燃料与气候变化联系起来的科学家却被视为厄运的预言家。
  • In August 1974, the CIA produced a study on “climatological research as it pertains to intelligence problems”.
  • 1974年8月,中央情报局制作了一份关于“与情报问题有关的气候学研究”的研究。
  • The diagnosis was dramatic.
  • 该研究所下的结论是非常戏剧性的。
  • It warned of the emergence of a new era of weird weather, leading to political unrest and mass migration (which, in turn, would cause more unrest).
  • 它警告说,一个新的异常天气时代的出现,将导致政治动荡和大规模移民(反过来,这又会导致更多的动荡)。
  • The new era the agency imagined wasn’t necessarily one of hotter temperatures; the CIA had heard from scientists warning of global cooling as well as warming.
  • 该机构想象的新时代不一定是温度升高的时代;中情局从科学家那里听到了全球降温和升温的警告。
 
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