climate
英 ['kla?m?t]
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- n. 氣候；風氣；思潮；風土
考試真題
- It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (營養不良)and heat-related health problems.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- But the report, he said, "will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed (有瑕疵的)
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- It was challenged by some climate and risk experts
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- How human and economic losses from climate change can be reduced.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- How rich countries can better help poor regions reduce climate hazards
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
- You can't deal with climate change without dealing with existing buildings," says Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust.
出自-2010年6月閱讀原文
- A study by the University of Manchester calculated the emissions of CO2—the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change—at every stage of microwaves, from manufacture to waste disposal.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- Around half of ocean heat intake since 1865 has taken place since 1997, researchers report online in Nature Climate Change.
2016年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- I think it's about how climate change affects everyday life.
2018年6月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Some climate impacts may already be discernible.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of timber.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic example being climate change.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- This is vital for climate-vulnerable nations.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- They are better able to cope with the global climate change.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- There must urgently be a meaningful mobilisation of the policies outlined in the agreement if we are to achieve national emissions reductions while helping the most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The Paris climate agreement finalised in December last year heralded a new era for climate action.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- The Paris agreement has been widely hailed as a positive step forward in addressing climate change for all, although the details on addressing climate justice can be best described as sketchy.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Securing these funds, and establishing who is responsible for raising them will also be vital for the future of climate-vulnerable countries.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- On the flip side, there are many forced riders, who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate free-riders: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate change's impact on food and water.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- We should take our future into consideration in making decisions concerning climate change before it is too late.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change, says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- To find effective solutions to climate change, it is necessary to understand what motivates people to make change.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- The road to climate hell is paved with our good intentions.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention across the political establishment.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by counting us in — and measuring us against - our peer group.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Recent polls by the Pew Research Centre in Washington, DC, found that 75-80 per cent of participants regarded climate change as an important issue.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Politicians are beginning to realise the importance of enlisting psychologists' help in fighting climate change.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of activity is where the future of environmental action lies.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Despite clear signs of global warming it is not easy for most people to believe climate change will affect their own lives.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- By the time we wake up to the threat posed by climate change, it could well be too late.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- A retired member of the Public and Commercial Services Union, she is setting up one of 1,100 action groups with the support of Climate Solidarity, a two-year environmental campaign aimed at trade unionists.
出自-2015年12月閱讀原文
- Uncommonly severe droughts brought on by global climate changes have led to forest-eating wildfires from Australia to Indonesia, but nowhere more acutely than in the Amazon.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- In the meantime, the amount of CO2 in the air is rapidly approaching the limits proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- "The project has two sides," says Xavier Serrat, Neurice project manager and researcher at the University of Barcelona,"the short-term fight against the snail, and a mid- to long-term fight against climate change.
2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
- "We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change," says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.
2015年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Actually, it has to translate into more urgency to deal with the climate change problem and reduce emissions.
2016年6月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- And we also need to plan ahead so that we're in a position to deal with the likely levels of climate change which are already inevitable and even more so too for the levels that are likely if we don't get those global agreements.
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- As I said, we need to understand the best ways of avoiding climate change and this will involve a huge transition to low-carbon energy systems and the transition is a tremendous priority.
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- As trees outgrow their ideal habitats in the face of climate change, these flying ecosystem engineers could be a big help in replanting trees.
2016年12月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- But today's report is the starkest warning yet of the potentially devastating impact of climate change and human exploitation on the Antarctic's delicate ecosystems.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- Champions of this type of regenerative grazing also point to its animal welfare, climate and health benefits: Grass-fed animals live longer out of confinement.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- Civilian aviation is being disrupted, not by the age-old desires for speed, romanticism and glamour, but by the pressing need to respond to a changing climate.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- Co-author Céline Le Bohec, from the University of Strasbourg in France, warned: "If there're no actions aimed at haling or controlling global warming, and the pace of the current human- induced changes such as climate change and overfishing stays the same
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate "free-riders": causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate chan
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Earlier this month a separate study found that a combination of climate change and industrial fishing is threatening the krill (磷蝦) population in Antarctic waters, with a potentially disastrous impact on whales, seals and penguins.
2019年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- However, the importance of effective communication with a general audience is not limited to hot issues like climate change.
2018年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- In the flip side, there are many "forced riders", who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- Love, who is director of Weather and disaster risk Reduction at the World Meteorological Organization, says most of the deaths and economic losses were caused by weather, climate, or water-related extremes.
2016年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Many scientists believe that El nio events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.
2017年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of activity is where the future of environmental action lies.
2015年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- Perhaps the most dramatic example of the negative consequences of poor communication between scientists and the public is the issue of climate change, where a variety of factors, not the least of which is a breakdown in the transmission of fundamental cli
2018年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- Russian and American spacecraft also found hints that its ancient climate might have been wetter, cooler, and possibly, even friendly to life.
2019年6月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Some of our research is to do with the likely impacts of climate change and all of the associated risks.
2016年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section A
- Sommerkorn says a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming needs to come out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.
2016年6月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- The Arctic sea ice holds a central position in the Earth's climate system and it's deteriorating faster than expected.
2016年6月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- The issue of climate change also illustrates how the public acceptance and understanding of scienceor the lack of it can influence governmental decision-making with regard to regulation, science policy and research funding.
2018年12月六級真題（第三套）閱讀 Section C
- The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by counting us in—and measuring us against—our peer group.
2015年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section B
- The report, published on Tuesday, comes amid growing concern about the impact of fishing and climate change on the Antarctic.
2019年12月六級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section C
- This is troubling as climbing Arctic temperatures combined with rapid sea ice loss are creating a new type of climate feedback loop, which could accelerate Arctic warming.
2018年12月六級真題（第二套）聽力 Section B
- Wadhams says there is no easy technological fix to climate change.
2016年6月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- Adaptation to climate change is challenging.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項
- By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to a study to be published Tuesday and climate change seems to be a major factor (因素).
2019年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Climate change is a continuing process, so Norphel's ice reserves will not last forever.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Climate change will fuel the growth of phytoplankton in some areas, while reducing it in other spots, leading to changes in the ocean's appearance.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Every college discussion about community values, social climate and behavior should include recognition of the developmental importance of student autonomy and self-regulation, of the necessary tension between safety and self-discovery.
2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Here I will stress some smarter and more creative examples of climate adaptation.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Human beings will continue to adapt to the changing climate in both ordinary and astonishing ways.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- In Peru, local farmers around a mountain with a glacier that has already fallen victim to climate change have begun painting the entire mountain peak white in the hope that the added reflectiveness will restore the life-giving ice.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Many businesses started up by college students have taken off thanks to the comfortable climate for business creation.
2016年高考英語江蘇卷 單項填空 原文
- Phytoplankton have been used to control global climate.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項
- So even if emissions were to begin to decrease today, we would still face the challenge of adapting to climate change.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's center for global change science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- The loss of shade trees is already causing a slight change in the world's climate, and studies show that loss of oxygen-giving trees also leads to air pollution and global warming.
2015年高考英語陜西卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文
- This is why, in part at least, the US national climate assessment says that: "There is no ‘one-size fits all' adaptation."
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Until we don't stop climate change, many animals and plants in the world will be gone.
2018年高考英語北京卷 單項填空 原文
- When it comes to adaptation, it is important to understand that climate change is a process.
2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- When these organisms die, they bury carbon in the deep ocean, an important process that helps to regulate the global climate.
2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Yet this enormous resource is not contributing enough to today's global challenges, including climate change, security, sustainable development and health.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- Now utopia has grown unfashionable, as we have gained a deeper appreciation of the range of threats facing us, from asteroid strike to epidemic flu and to climate change.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- Analyses reveal that the number of papers including the keywords "environmental change" or "climate change" have increased rapidly since 2004.
2013年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- California is leading the way, as it does on so many climate efforts, in figuring out the details.
2019年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Forests give us shade, quiet and one of the harder challenges in the fight against climate change.
2019年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Over the past decade, the focus has been on climate change——how the warming of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.
2017年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today's economic climate.
2013年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The climate change we are hastening could one day leave us with forests that emit more carbon than they absorb.
2019年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The pace of change in energy sources appears to be speeding up – perhaps just in time to have a meaningful effect in slowing climate change.
2018年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- We need to adjust to this changing climate.
2014年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- While climate is a key element, Morita says, it shouldn't come at the expense of the rest of the equation.
2017年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ