素人翻译，请多多指教！ ※ 引述《swallow73 (吃素、环保、救地球)》之铭言： : 标题: [闲聊] 这不是气候变迁，这是气候崩坏 : 时间: Fri Mar 13 07:52:19 2009 : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/12/climate- change-copenhagen-monbiot : : 缩网址:http://0rz.tw/r5dNi : : : : Time to change 'climate change' 变换「气候变迁」的时刻到了 : : : What's clear from Copenhagen is that policymakers have fallen behind the : scientists: global warming is already catastrophic 从歌本哈根（会议）看来，决策者对「全球暖化已是灾难」的认知远落後於科学家 　是再清楚不过。 : Comments (…) : : * George Monbiot : * : o George Monbiot : o guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 March 2009 : o Article history : o 乔治．蒙毕尔特 　　　　　　o 英国卫报／2009 3 12 (四) o 文章简介 　　　　　　[译补： George Monbiot: It's time we stopped saying 'climate change' and started addressing the disaster This article was first published on guardian.co.uk at 14.30 GMT on Thursday 12 March 2009. It was last updated at 08.45 GMT on Friday 13 March 2009. 蒙毕尔特:我们该停止说「气候变迁」并开始称之为灾难的时刻到了。 本文第一次发表於2009/3/12(四)14:30。 最後更新於2009/3/13(五)08:45] : The more we know, the grimmer it gets. 我们知道的愈多，结论愈是可怕 : : Presentations by climate scientists at this week's conference in Copenhagen : show that we might have underplayed the impacts of global warming in three : important respects: 根据本周歌本哈根会议与会气候专家表示，我们可能在三个重要的层面看轻了全球暖 化的影响： : : ‧ Partly because the estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate : Change (IPCC) took no account of meltwater from Greenland's glaciers, the : rise in sea levels this century could be twice or three times as great as it : forecast, with grave implications for coastal cities, farmland and freshwater : reserves. 部分肇因於IPCC的评估没有计算到格陵岛冰河融化的雪水，海平面上升对沿海城市、 农田及淡水保留地的重大影响，可能是其预估的二至三倍。 : ‧ Two degrees of warming in the Arctic (which is heating up much more : quickly than the rest of the planet) could trigger a massive bacterial : response in the soils there. As the permafrost melts, bacteria are able to : start breaking down organic material that was previously locked up in ice, : producing billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide and methane. This could : catalyse one of the world's most powerful positive feedback loops: warming : causing more warming. 北极圈气温升高２度(其暖化远快於地球其它地区)，可能引发该地土壤惊人的细菌 反应。当永冻土融化，细菌就能开始分解原本被冰封的有机质，进而产生数以亿吨 的二氧化碳跟甲烷。这将催化世界最强大的正向反馈循环之一：暖化造成更多暖化。 : : ‧ Four degrees of warming could almost eliminate the Amazon rainforests, : with appalling implications for biodiversity and regional weather patterns, : and with the result that a massive new pulse of carbon dioxide is released : into the atmosphere. Trees are basically sticks of wet carbon. As they rot or : burn, the carbon oxidises. This is another way in which climate feedbacks : appear to have been underestimated in the last IPCC report. 气温上升４度可能几乎消灭亚马逊雨林，对生物多样性及整个地区气候型态带来骇 人影响，随之而来的是二氧化碳释放到大气产生的惊人新冲击。树木根本就是湿碳 棒(译注：此句难翻)，一但腐化或燃烧，就会产生二氧化碳。这个气候反馈的另一 　个途径，似乎在IPCC最後的报告中被低估了。 : : Apart from the sheer animal panic I felt on reading these reports, two things : jumped out at me. The first is that governments are relying on IPCC : assessments that are years out of date even before they are published, as a : result of the IPCC's extremely careful and laborious review and consensus : process. This lends its reports great scientific weight, but it also means : that the politicians using them as a guide to the cuts in greenhouse gases : required are always well behind the curve. There is surely a strong case for : the IPCC to publish interim reports every year, consisting of a summary of : the latest science and its implications for global policy. 我在阅读这些报告时除了纯粹的身体恐慌，还发现两件事。第一，各国政府信赖IPCC 即使之前曾出版但已过时数年的预估报告，将之视为IPCC极其小心费力复审并程序一 致的结果。这使得它的报告有很大的科学份量，但这也意谓着，政客们使用这些报告 　做为指南以漠视永远在弯道之後的温室气体。无疑地，IPCC每年发布的暂时报告有一 　个强烈理由，构成最新科学的总结及其对全球政策的影响。 : : The second is that we have to stop calling it climate change. Using "climate : change" to describe events like this, with their devastating implications for : global food security, water supplies and human settlements, is like : describing a foreign invasion as an unexpected visit, or bombs as unwanted : deliveries. It's a ridiculously neutral term for the biggest potential : catastrophe humankind has ever encountered. 　其次，我们必须停止称之为气候变迁。使用「气候变迁」去描述这些在全球粮食安全 　、水资源及人类安定有毁灭性影响的事件，就像以意外拜访描述外来入侵，或以多余 　的投递（译注：广告信之类的吧？）描述炸弹。对人类未曾遭遇的最大潜在灾难，这 　是荒谬的模糊术语。 : : I think we should call it "climate breakdown". Does anyone out there have a : better idea? 　我认为，我们应该称之为「气候崩坏」。有人有更好的想法吗？ : : -- : 抗暖化、环保、单车、淡北快速道路、远雄巨蛋、苏花高、 : 八轻、原民、白海豚、乐生、同志..... 　　　　　　　 : 　　　　　　　　　　　 GREEN PARTY 绿党非官方电子报 : 订阅请至网址：http://greenpartytwweekly.blogspot.com/ : 部份电邮会扫到垃圾邮件，收信请至垃圾邮件夹予以复原。 : : -- :

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