1、关于全球变暖的英语方面的术语
water pollution
greenhouse effect
sewage
global waming effect
Venice Sinking
Amount of Ground Level Ozone
Catalytic Converter
Protected Species
Endangered Species
Animals and the Environment
EPA
NOAA
第一篇What is Global Warming?
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-global-warming.htm
Global warming refers solely to the fact that the Earth's atmosphere is
warming near its surface. Simply put, it's getting hotter. The term does
not imply a cause or speak to cause. The scientific community believes
climate changes like global warming have occurred throughout Earth's
history and will continue to occur in the future. Some evidence links
global warming to solar activity; however, there are other theories as
well.
One popular theory relates to the "greenhouse effect." Gases that make up
our atmosphere are analogous to a greenhouse in that they allow sunlight
to pass through, then trap much of the heat from escaping. This naturally
occurring phenomenon keeps Earth's surface warmer than it would be
otherwise. However, human proced compounds regularly released into the
atmosphere in recent years have "thickened the greenhouse wall" beyond
naturally occurring levels. When this happens, even less heat escapes,
causing temperature to rise. This is called greenhouse warming and
results in global warming.
While the scientific community accepts global warming as a given,
greenhouse warming is more controversial. Everyone agrees that
human-proced compounds like carbon dioxide, methane,
chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's), etc. are being released into the atmosphere,
yet some argue it's not clear how this factors into the changes in global
warming.
Another distinct issue commonly associated with greenhouse warming and
global warming is the ozone. Ozone is a naturally occurring gas in the
lower atmosphere that helps trap heat. The burning of fossil fuels
creates even more ozone, as ozone is one component of smog. As ozone
builds, so does trapped heat, increasing the greenhouse effect.
Additionally, ozone plays a role in the upper atmosphere where it shields
the Earth from deadly ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Unfortunately, CFC's -
the same human proced compound that acts like a greenhouse gas in the
lower atmosphere - destroy ozone. This can result in holes in our upper
ozone layer as seen over Antarctica where cold temperatures, atmospheric
circulation and other factors combine to 'draw' these ozone holes.
In conclusion, global warming and the issues surrounding it have
far-reaching implications and can significantly impact human life on many
levels. For this reason, scientists want to know how long the Earth has
been warming, at what rate is it warming, and what factors are causing
it. These answers will better prepare us to handle the effects of global
warming.
第二篇Is the Globe Warming?
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Global warming has become the hot topic in environmental politics today.
From the Kyoto Protocols to the recent environmental summit in
Johannesburg, suddenly much is ado about something that might be nothing.
Pointing to increased iceberg sightings and American temperature
fluctuations, environmental activists blast the Bush administration
(though not Clinton, who wisely passed the buck) for failing to submit
instry to a wave of harsh regulations that would stymie the economy and
might not solve the problem, if one exists. These regulations would have
the net effect of preventing the growth of the energy instry, limiting
the energy resources available to other instries and overall resulting
in the forced cutting of costs, i.e. the jobs that millions of working
class Americans depend on. This weakening of the national economy is
supposed to be in the best interest of the world. However, the activist's
claims reside solely on two assumptions; first, that global temperatures
are rising significantly, and second, that we are causing these changes
by emitting greenhouse gases. Both are unproven.
Global warming is a phenomenon of rising average global temperatures that
will lead to melting ice caps, higher seas, distorted weather patterns,
and according to environmental activists, the end of the world. Is this
happening? The answer is a definite maybe. There is certainly evidence of
changing global climate patterns. Increasingly severe storms, droughts,
and El Nino are all evidence of that. Global warming itself, however, is
as yet unproven. While evidence exists showing that certain areas have
suffered higher temperatures in recent years, the worldwide average
tropospheric (0-5 miles above the surface) temperature, as measured by
satellite, has in fact remained statistically constant since 1979
according to NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center. This is
contrasted with recent findings that the earth is in fact absorbing more
energy from the sun than it is transmitting into outer space. If true
this would mean that the earth is in fact heating up, but it is not yet
certain where this energy is going (some suspect it is responsible for
melting ice caps). Finally, there are significant difficulties, both
theoretical and technical, in simply measuring the changes in
temperature. Taking a meaningful average and finding changes on the order
of 0.1 degrees Celsius when the temperature in most parts of the world
fluctuates by up to 40 degrees daily is almost impossible statistically.
The preponderance of conflicting reports by reliable sources (it seems
unlikely that NASA was bribed to lie) and the experimental difficulty of
taking reasonable measurements and obtaining statistically valid results
all make it difficult to conclude with certainty that global warming is a
fact. Fortunately, it may not matter.
The mechanism by which the earth retains heat energy from the sun, e to
current theories, is based on the concept that energy from the sun that
is reflected from the ground will in turn be reflected back to earth by
"greenhouse gases" such as CO2, NO2, CH4, etc. The more greenhouse gases
present in the atmosphere, the more heat is retained and thus the rise in
global temperatures. The environmental activists argue that the global
warming phenomenon is e to increased human proction of greenhouse
gases. Chief among these gases is carbon dioxide, proced by the burning
of fossil fuels. The logical conclusion is then that instry must be cut
back in order for global warming to abate. This dection may be
inaccurate. First, instrial proction of carbon dioxide is only a
small percentage of total CO2 emissions, most of which is e to
biological processes in organisms and volcanic activity (of which there
has been a significant increase in recent times). Secondly, CO2 is
responsible for very little of the total "greenhouse effect," most of
which is caused, interestingly enough, by gaseous water and atmospheric
water vapor″clouds. Even if instrial waste proction were to cease
entirely, no one has proven that the greenhouse effect would
significantly lessen, or that it would stop global warming altogether.
The fact of the matter is that the earth is one of the largest, most
complex chemical reactions known. Many of the mechanisms that account for
global climate patterns are unknown or poorly understood. Even the daily
weather, with 150 years of data available for study, cannot be predicted
for more than a few days in the future. Small changes in atmospheric
concentrations may have large impacts, for example, CFCs destroying the
ozone, and large changes may be absorbed by the maintenance of
equilibria, as in the carbon cycle, thus having their effects diminished.
As such, no scientist has yet been able say that instrial waste
proction is definitely and irrefutably the cause of current aberrations
in weather and climate. At best, pro-warming scientists have been able to
suggest Americans "hedge their bets" and cut CO2 proction. This may be
sound advice. However, we cannot irreparably damage our economy and
destroy millions of jobs without better evidence and definite proof. As
usual science should be left to the scientists, not the activists,
politicians, or lobbyists (of which there is an unhealthy abundance, both
instrial AND green). Ecated action is warranted only after further
study and better understanding.
2、急求一份关于气候变化的英文报告！！！！！！！！！！！
给你找上3篇：
1.
Global warming tops our list of science stories in 2007. Scientists say there is new evidence that the polar ice caps are melting at a faster pace. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it is 90 percent certain that human activity is linked to rising temperatures.
Panel Chairman Rajendra Pachauri explains, "...what you have is solid scientific evidence."
Pachauri's U.N. panel shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who said, "I'm going to speak an inconvenient truth, My own country is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali. We all know that."
Gore's Academy Awarding winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, documents the effects of climate change.
In other news, scientists uncovered a previously unknown, human settlement around Stonehenge, announced a new theory on the building of the Pyramids, and put King Tut on public display for the first time in 3,000 years.
Scientists also had a remarkable discovery in Kenya - a 10 million year old jaw bone that may link mankind to the great apes.
And in the fossil of a T-Rex, American researchers decoded soft tissue proteins linking the monstrous reptile to birds.
Japan and China jumped into the space race in 2007, both launching their first lunar probes. NASA shared 3-D (three dimensional) images of the sun, and with three shuttle missions, stepped up construction of the International Space Station. Mechanical problems halted a fourth shuttle launch in December, but station construction resumes in 2008.
2.
The Oxfam report, called Climate Alarm, says natural disasters have risen from 120 annually in the 1980s to as many as 500 today.
The report notes that while crises such as the African famines of the early 1980s, the Bangladesh cyclone of 1991 and the Asian tsunami caused an enormous loss of life, the new worrying trend is the increase in small to medium-sized disasters.
The report's author, John Magrath, says most of these disasters now occur at unusual times.
"We think that 2007 has been a particularly bad year and also particularly strange year because of the unprecedented nature of many of these disasters. We are talking about some very unusual floods in West Africa, very unusual floods in East Africa, extraordinary floods in Mexico and parts of Central America, and heat waves in Greece, eastern Europe," said Magrath.
One short disaster after another, even if relatively small, the report warns, can push poor people and communities into a downward spiral from which it is very difficult to recover. It says the tendency of rich countries is to prioritize their aid spending on more high-profile emergencies. They also focus on countries that are seen as being in line with their foreign policy priorities, the report says.
Magrath says the people who are least responsible for climate change are the ones most adversely affected by it.
"There is a basic global injustice in this. It seems to us that the rich nations of this earth have the historical responsibility to act first and fastest to rece greenhouse gas emissions to show an example and to lead the way," he added. "They also have the capability to do it and to begin to switch away from fossil fuels, to renewable energy, there is a huge potential for that, a huge market for that, it is about time some leadership was shown."
Magrath expressed hope that the United Nations Climate Change conference set for Bali in December will present developed countries with an opportunity to seriously address climate change issues.
3.
In Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, the dangers presented by global warming are shown in graphic fashion, with photos, maps and charts. In his view, there is no time to lose in addressing global warming.
GORE: "That is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth."
The poster and cover art for the movie show a huge hurricane coming out of a smoke stack. But that image and much of what Al Gore presents in the film is rejected by one of the most respected men in the field of climate studies in the United States.
William Gray, 77, the principal force behind the annual hurricane forecasts done by Colorado State University's School of Atmospheric Science, has little good to say about Gore and his movie.
"He is making statements that I could never make. He is making assumptions that are just not true. I think there are many factual errors in his movie," he said.
Gray rejects Gore's assertion that hurricanes are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of global warming. A number of other scientists, even some who support Gore's position in general, have also questioned some of the claims made in the movie.
But not William Gray. He does not dispute that the world is warming, but he does not see it as a crisis and he does not think emissions of CO2, methane and other gases have much to do with it.
"Yes, we have seen some global warming. I think it is primarily natural e to the global ocean circulation features," he added.
Gray says the current warming trend is part of a natural cycle and that the world may soon enter a cooling phase.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently reported that climate change is accelerating even faster than had previously been predicted, adding to the urgent need to take action. But Gray and other critics say these predictions are based on unreliable computer models. He says the IPCC has a political agenda and that skeptics are kept out of the discussion.
"The IPCC and all these reports, I have been over 55 years working in the field and they never have come to me one time," he said. "I have just been isolated and I know other colleagues of mine, who I respect for their knowledge. They never consulted them either. If they know how you think, they just leave you alone and go on."
IPCC scientists reject such characterization of their consensus view and defend computer modeling as a way of understanding how greenhouse gases are affecting climate.
Gray believes the cutbacks in fossil fuel use advocated by the consensus scientists would hurt the economies of the United States and other instrialized nations and, in the end, do little or nothing to stop global warming. He says all the attention focused on global warming is distracting people from the world's real problems.
"We have so many other important problems around the world that are much more critical," he explained. "For instance, poverty, AIDS, terrorism, all these problems we have in the world. To me this global warming is sort of a red herring. They have been saying it is the greatest problem facing mankind now. That is a gross exaggeration."
William Gray plans to write a book to refute Gore's and other global warming activists' arguments. He says he and other skeptics have been shunted aside and dismissed as "global warming deniers." Critics also claim the skeptics are financed by large oil companies, but William Gray says he has never taken any money from the energy instry.
While he may not have convinced some of the scientists who believe in human-inced global warming, he may yet have a chance to make his case. Some scientists from the global warming camp are now saying that debate should be allowed. As Gray and other skeptics have argued, science is advanced through constant questioning and testing of hypotheses, not by consensus.
3、谁有关于全球变暖的英语文章
Global warming may be twice as bad as feared
The impact of global warming could be twice as severe as the worst scenario feared by United Nations scientists, the world's largest climate-modelling experiment has shown.
Average temperatures could rise by 11C (20F) to reach highs that would change the face of the globe, researchers who have run 60,000 computer simulations of climate change said yesterday.
The conclusions suggest that forecasts by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be much too conservative. In the worst case, the world would eventually heat up by almost double the maximum increase envisaged by the panel. The IPCC's latest report predicted that temperatures will rise by between 1.4C (2.5F) and 5.8C (10.4F) by 2100.
A world 11C warmer than it is today would be unrecognisable: while records show that the planet has been hotter than it is today for about 80 per cent of its history, there is no evidence that it has ever been more than about 7C warmer.
Although it would take hundreds of years for the full effects to be felt, the polar ice caps eventually would melt completely, causing sea levels to rise by 70m to 100m (230ft to 330ft). Coastal and low-lying cities such as London and New York would be submerged.
As the 11C figure is a global average, temperatures would be expected to climb even further in some regions.
David Stainforth, of the University of Oxford, the study's chief scientist, said: "When I start to look at these figures, I get very worried about them. An 11-degree warmed world would be a dramatically different world."
世界上最大的气象模拟试验显示,全球变暖影响比联合国科学家们担心的最糟糕的情况还要严重两倍.
昨天（1月26日）,使用6万台计算机模拟气候变化的研究者们说,全球平均气温可能会升高11摄氏度（20华氏度）,高温将改变地球表面.
这些结论表明联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会对于的气候变化预测可能过于保守.最糟糕的情况是,全球温度最终将比该委员会预计的增长提高将近2倍.政府间气候变化专门委员会的最新报告预测,到2100年（全球）气温将升高1.4摄氏度（2.5华氏度）到5.8摄氏度(10.4华氏度).
温度比现在高11摄氏度的地球将变的面目全非.虽然有记录显示在历史上80%的时间里,地球表面的温度都比现在高,但从没有比现在高出7摄氏度的.
虽然要几百年时间才能感受到升温对各方面的影响,极地冰帽最终将完全融化,使海平面升高70到80米（230到330英尺）.伦敦、纽约等沿海和低洼城市将被海水淹没.
（升温）11摄氏度仅是全球的平均数字,在局部地区升温幅度将更大.
牛津大学负责该项研究的科学家大卫·斯坦福斯说：“当我开始研究这些数据时,我非常担忧.温度比现在高11度的地球将是一个完全不同的世界.”
4、关于全球变暖的英语名言
1、人人节约一点能源，世界增添绿洲无限。
Everyone to save a little energy, the world to add oasis unlimited.
2、环境正是由人来改变的，而教育者本人一定是受教育的。——马克思
The environment is changed by the people, and the ecator himself must be ecated. -- Marx
3、山中何所有?岑上多白云只可自怡悦、不堪持寄君“诏问山中何所有”，赋诗以答。——陶弘景
What is in the mountains? CEN many white clouds on only their own pleasure, not to send you "Chao asked Yamanaka He to answer all" poems. -- Tao Hongjing
4、物竞天择，适者生存。——达尔文
Survival of the fittest in natural selection, survival of the fittest. -- Darwin
5、无污染旅游——除了脚印什么都不要留下;除了记忆，什么都不要带走。
No pollution travel -- don't leave anything except footprints; don't take anything except the memory.
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5、答对加分：全球变暖的英文标语
If we want to have a better future ,we must
protect our earth.
we only have a earth.
without other livings ,we humen cannot live.