TED中英官方演讲稿-JamesHansen_2012我为什么要声讨气候变化.docxVIP

1.What do I know that would cause me, a reticent, Midwestern scientist, to get myself arrested in front of the White House protesting? 我知道了些什么， 会驱使我这样一个 沉默寡言、来自中西部的科学家 到白宫门前去抗议 而被捕？2.And what would you do if you knew what I know? 而你又会怎样做 如果你知道我所知道的？3.Lets start with how I got to this point. 我们从我的成长历程讲起。4.I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university. 我很幸运。 在我成长的那个年代， 一个佃农的孩子 想上州立大学还不那么难。5.And I was really lucky to go to the University of Iowa where I could study under Professor James Van Allen who built instruments for the first U.S. satellites. 我还不是一般得幸运。 我大学去了爱荷华州立大学。 在那里，我得到了James Van Allen教授的悉心指教。 Van Allen教授为美国最早的卫星 制造仪器。6.Professor Van Allen told me about observations of Venus, that there was intense microwave radiation. 教授告诉我， 对金星的观察显示， 金星上有强烈的微波辐射。7.Did it mean that Venus had an ionosphere? 这是表明金星上有电离层，8.Or was Venus extremely hot? 还是说金星上非常热？9.The right answer, confirmed by the Soviet Venera spacecraft, was that Venus was very hot -- 900 degrees Fahrenheit. 经苏联的金星航天器肯定， 正确的答案是， 金星上非常热—— 温度高达900华氏度。10.And it was kept hot by a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere. 因为金星上空有一层厚厚的二氧化碳气层， 这个高温得以一直保持。11.I was fortunate to join NASA and successfully propose an experiment to fly to Venus. 我非常幸运地加入了国家航空航天局， 并成功地提出了一项 飞往金星的实验。12.Our instrument took this image of the veil of Venus, which turned out to be a smog of sulfuric acid. 我们的仪器拍摄到这张照片。 照片上正是金星的面纱。 这层面纱实际上是 一层含硫酸性雾。13.But while our instrument was being built, I became involved in calculations of the greenhouse effect here on Earth, because we realized 但就在我们制造仪器期间， 我参与 计算地球上的 温室效应， 因为我们意识到14.that our atmospheric composition was changing. 我们的大气层成分正在发生变化。15.Eventually, I resigned as principal investigator on our Venus experiment because a planet changing before our eyes is more interesting and important. 最终，我辞去了 我们的金星实验组 首席调查员的职务， 因为一颗就在我们眼前变化的行星 要更有趣，也更重要。16.Its changes will eff