But the intriguing question 但更引人关注问题是 is the effect it might have been having on our winters. 这种气候对冬季可能产生的影响 As Christmas 2009 approached, 2009年圣诞将近时 Britain started to shiver. 英国开始瑟瑟...
So we are changing how water gets distributed around our planet. 我们改变了全球降水的分布 Places that are already dry are getting drier. 干旱地区更加干旱 Places that are already wet are getting wetter. 湿润地区更加湿润 And...
It's these storms, or lack of them, 正是这些风暴 或缺少这些风暴 that trigger the extreme dry and wet weather in West Texas. 造成了西德州极端干旱或湿润的天气 In the future, 科学家认为 scientists expect this pattern of...
The weather here has all the hallmarks of global weirding. 当地天气拥有全球怪象的所有特征 It may not rain as often 这里或许不常降雨 or as regularly, 雨水也不规律 which makes droughts possible. 这使干旱成为可能 But...
Two record-breaking years back-to-back 连续两年出现极端天气 is unheard of in this part of the world. 在这片土地上还是头一遭 The thing that we are concerned about 我们担心的是 is that the dew points are going to be a little...
Global weirding is a phrase she helped popularise. 她帮助普及了全球怪象这一说法 One of the clues to the weirding of the West Texas weather 西德州古怪天气成因的一个线索 lies right under her feet. 就藏在她脚下 What we...
It's now officially the worst drought on record here. 现在的确是记录中最严重的干旱了 It's fast becoming like the dust bowl of the 1930s, 就快要变成20世纪30年代的沙尘暴 which forced thousands people off their land. 迫使数千...
Matt recorded this raging dust storm on his camera phone. 马特用他的手机拍下了沙尘暴肆虐的画面 Just a reminder how dry we are 只是为了提醒我们 and the condition that our land is in. 我们的土地旱成了什么样 This dus...
This is West Texas, 这里是西德州 where they're very comfortable with extremes. 那里的人们早已习惯了走极端 Big cars. 大汽车 Big hats. 大帽子 And big farms aren't the exception, but the norm. 大农场也不例外 随处可见...
I'm somebody who spends a lot of time 我花了很多时间 modelling hurricanes in the current climate and future climates. 建立现在气候和未来气候下的飓风模型 When we do that, we begin to see hurricanes 模型告诉我们 that haven...
