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| And there is the rub. Many scientists say that to avoid a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations, energy efficiency must be increased drastically, and soon. And by midcentury, they add, there must be a complete transformation of energy technology. That may be why some environmentalists try to link today's weather to tomorrow's problem. 而难就难在这儿。很多科学家表示，要避免二氧化碳浓度成倍增长，能源效率必须迅速且有力地增加。同时，他们补充说，到本世纪中期，能源技术必须有一个彻底的改革。那可能就是为什么一些环境学家要试着把如今的天气和未来的难题相挂钩的原因。 While scientists say they lack firm evidence connecting recent weather to the human influence on climate, campaigners still push the notion. 尽管科学家们表示，他们缺乏能把近来的天气和人类对于气候的影响联系到一起的有力证据，然而活动家们还是力推这一观点。 A March Gallup survey shows that people are still not worried about climate change. When participants were asked to rank 10 environmental problems, global warming was near the bottom. 今年三月的一项盖洛普民意调查显示，人们并没有为气候变化而担忧。在参与者被要求排列10种环境问题的时候，全球变暖差不多在最后。 Without a connection to current disasters, global warming is the kind of problem people have proved singularly terrible at solving: a long-term threat that can only be limited by acting promptly, before the harm is clear. 如果和目前的灾难没有关系的话，全球变暖就是某种人们已经证实异常难解的问题：在其危害变得明显之前，只能通过迅速行动来加以限制的一种长期威胁。 "I wish I were more optimistic of our ability to get a broad slice of the public to understand this and be motivated to act," said David Hawkins, who directs the climate program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private group. “我希望自己能更乐观地看待我们使大部分公众明白此情况的能力，并促使他们采取行动，”戴维•霍金斯说道，他在一个私人图体“美国自然资源保护委员会”里主管气候计划。 In an e-mail message, he wrote: "Perhaps pictures of drowning polar bears (which we are trying to find) will move people but even there, people will need to believe that those drownings are due to our failure to build cleaner power plants and cars." 他在一封电子邮件中写到：“也许北极熊淹溺的图片（那是我们正在试图寻找的）将会打动人们，但即便那样，人们还得相信那些淹溺是由于我们无法建造更清洁的能源工厂和车辆。” Key words 注释 climate-evangelist alarmist n. 杞人忧天者，危言耸听者 op-ed (opinions opposite to the editorials) 社论版对页 heat-trapped adj. 聚热的 greenhouse-gas n. 二氧化碳、甲烷等导致温室效应的气体 nonevent n. 大肆宣扬即将来临而结果未发生之事 hurricane n. 飓风，狂风 cyclical fluctuations 周期性变动 somewhere around n. 大约 there is the rub问题难就难在这里；难就难在这儿 |
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