前言 ‘Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,’ said an American writer in 1897. More than 100 years later, everybody is certainly talking about the weather and climate change. From hurricanes in Brazil to floods in Bangladesh, from heat waves in France to drought in Australia, the weather is never out of the news. But is anybody doing anything about it? The climate is changing, but why? What can we do about it, and what should we do about it? These are important questions – and perhaps there is not a lot of time to find the answers. Climate change is going to have an effect on the lives of everybody in the world. “人人都在谈论天气，但没有一个人对它有所作为。”一位美国作家于1897年这样说道。100多年后，的确人人都在谈论天气和气候变化。从巴西的飓风到孟加拉国的洪水，从法国的热浪到澳大利亚的旱灾，新闻中总有关于天气的消息。 但有人在对天气采取任何行动吗？气候在发生变化，可这是为什么呢？我们对此能做些什么，又该做些什么？这些问题很重要—— 而且也许留给我们寻找答案的时间不多了。气候变化将会对世界上每个人的生活产生影响。
目录 1 What is climate change? 1 2 How does our climate work? 4 3 Getting warmer 8 4 Wetter – and drier 12 5 Extreme weather 17 6 Slow or sudden change? 20 7 How bad will it get? 24 8 Is it all bad? 28 9 Carbon 32 10 What are our governments doing? 35 11 What can you do? 39
GLOSSARY 42 ACTIVITIES: Before Reading 45 ACTIVITIES: While Reading 46 ACTIVITIES: After Reading 50 TRANSLATION 参考译文 53
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