小马托福阅读材料：地表温度变化.doc

小马托福阅读材料：地表温度变化 小马过河为大家准备了“小马托福阅读材料：地表温度变化”， 供各位备考托福的考生们参考使用，来提高自己的托福成绩！免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 　　KEYWORDS：全球变暖 　　全球变暖之-温度变化(双语) 　　声明：本文图片内容来自与互联网络，旨在调节视觉疲劳，如有版权问题，请致电告知。本文英文阅读文本内容来自于国外英文门户以及资讯资料网站，可能有超语法类的常用正确表达，请大家仔细审阅，注意甄别。 　　全球变暖指的是在一段时间中，地球的大气和海洋温度上升的现象，主要是指人为因素造成的温度上升。原因很可能是由于温室气体排放过多造成。 　　The most commonly discussed measure of global warming is the trend in globally averaged temperature near the Earth’s surface. Expressed as a linear trend, this temperature rose by 0.74°C ±0.18°C over the period 1906–2005. The rate of warming over the last half of that period was almost double that for the period as a whole (0.13°C ±0.03°C per decade, versus 0.07°C ± 0.02°C per decade). The urban heat island effect is estimated to account for about 0.002 °C of warming per decade since 1900.[8] Temperatures in the lower troposphere have increased between 0.12 and 0.22 °C (0.22 and 0.4 °F) per decade since 1979, according to satellite temperature measurements. Temperature is believed to have been relatively stable over the one or two thousand years before 1850, with regionally-varying fluctuations such as the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age. 　　Based on estimates by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 was the warmest year since reliable, widespread instrumental measurements became available in the late 1800s, exceeding the previous record set in 1998 by a few hundredths of a degree.Estimates prepared by the World Meteorological Organization and the Climatic Research Unit concluded that 2005 was the second warmest year, behind 1998.Temperatures in 1998 were unusually warm because the strongest El Ni?o in the past century occurred during that year.Global temperature is subject to short-term fluctuations that overlay long term trends and can temporarily mask them. The relative stability in temperature from 1999 to 2009 is consistent with such an episode. 　　Temperature changes vary over the globe. Since 1979, land temperatures have increased about twice as fast