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2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming SkepticsBy JUSTIN GILLIS January 19,全球气温创纪录新高JUSTIN GILLIS 2015年01月19日Last year was the hottest on earth since record-keeping began in 1880, scientists reported on Friday, underscoring warnings about the risks of runaway greenhouse gas emissions and undermining claims by climate change contrarians that global warming had somehow stopped.科学家上周五发表报告显示，去年是自1880年记录开始以来，地球上最热的一年，对温室气体排放失控的危险发出了更强的警告，削弱了反对气候变化者认为的全球变暖已经停止的观点。Extreme heat blanketed Alaska and much of the western United States last year. Records were set across large areas of every inhabited continent. And the ocean surface was unusually warm virtually everywhere except near Antarctica, the scientists said, providing the energy that fueled damaging Pacific storms.去年，酷热天气覆盖了阿拉斯加州和大部分美国西部地区。地面温度在所有有人居住的大陆上都创下了记录。科学家说，海洋表面在除南极洲附近海域以外的几乎所有水域中都异常温暖，为造成巨大破坏的太平洋风暴提供了能量。In the annals of climatology, 2014 surpassed 2010 as the warmest year. The 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1997, a reflection of the relentless planetary warming that scientists say is a consequence of human activity and poses profound long-term risks to civilization and nature.在气候学的史册里，2014年超过了2010年，成为最热的年份。有记录以来的10个最暖年份都是在1997年以后，反映了地球不断变暖的趋势，科学家说，这种变暖是人类活动的结果，并对人类文明和大自然构成了深远的长期危险。“Climate change is perhaps the major challenge of our generation,” said Michael H. Freilich, director of earth sciences at NASA, one of the agencies that track global temperatures.“气候变化也许是我们这代人的重大挑战，”美国国家航空航天局(NASA)地球科学部主任迈克尔?H?弗莱利赫(Michael H. Freilich)说，他的部门是跟踪全球气温的机构之一。Of the large land areas where many people live, only the eastern portion of the United States recorded below-average temperatures in 2014, in sharp contrast to the unusual heat in the West. Some experts think the weather pattern that produced those American extremes is an indirect consequence of the release of greenhouse gases, though that is not proven.在美国许多人居住的大面积地区之中，只有东部在2014年记录到低于平均气温的温度，这与西部的异常高温形成了鲜明对比。有专家认为，造成美国这些极端温度的天气模式是温室气