RobDunbar_2010Z在海洋和冰层中追寻远古气候.docxVIP

1.If you really want to understand the problem that were facing with the oceans, you have to think about the biology at the same time you think about the physics. 如果你想真正了解 我们所面对的海洋问题， 你就必须在考虑到物理学的同时 也考虑到生物学。2.We cant solve the problems unless we start studying the ocean in a very much more interdisciplinary way. 我们不可能解决问题， 除非我们开始用一种 跨学科的方式来研究海洋。3.So Im going to demonstrate that through discussion of some of the climate change things that are going on in the ocean. 所以我会通过对发生在海洋中的 一些气候变化的讨论来阐释我的观点。4.Well look at sea level rise. 我们会看到海平面上升。5.Well look at ocean warming. 我们会看到海洋变暖。6.And then the last thing on the list there, ocean acidification -- if you were to ask me, you know, What do you worry about the most? 那么在这张单子的最下面是，海洋酸化—— 如果你要问我，“你最担心发生什么？7.What frightens you? 什么最让你害怕？”8.for me, its ocean acidification. 对于我来说，那就是海洋酸化。9.And this has come onto the stage pretty recently. 而且这件事已迫在眉睫。10.So I will spend a little time at the end. 所以最后我会花一点时间来讲它。11.I was in Copenhagen in December like a number of you in this room. 12月份我在哥本哈根 就像你们一样，在这样的房间里。12.And I think we all found it, simultaneously, an eye-opening and a very frustrating experience. 然后我想我们大家都发现这是 一次令人大开眼界 同时也非常令人沮丧的经历。13.I sat in this large negotiation hall, at one point, for three or four hours, without hearing the word oceans one time. 我坐在这样大的交流厅里， 从某种程度上讲，大概坐了有3到4个小时， 却听不到“海洋”这个词。14.It really wasnt on the radar screen. 它确实不在讨论范围内。15.The nations that brought it up when we had the speeches of the national leaders -- it tended to be the leaders of the small island states, 当轮到各个国家的领导人发言时， 某个国家才把这个话题提出来。 这好像是那些小的岛国16.the low-lying island states. 也就是那些低海拔岛国的的领导人。17.And by this weird quirk of alphabetical order of the nations, a lot of the low-lying states, like Kiribati and Nauru, they were seated at the very end of these immensely long rows. 这些低海拔的国家， 如基里巴斯和瑙鲁， 因为按照字母顺序排列国家的原因， 他们（的领导人）坐在 这些长长队伍中非常靠后的位置。18.You know, they were marginalized in the nego