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Whenever I hear a weather report declaring it’s the hottest June 10 on record or whatever, I can’t take it too seriously, becaus
Whenever I hear a weather report declaring it’s the hottest June 10 on record or whatever, I can’t take it too seriously, becaus
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2013-01-25
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Whenever I hear a weather report declaring it’s the hottest June 10 on record or whatever, I can’t take it too seriously, because "ever" really means "as long as the records go back", which is only as far as the late 1800s. Scientists have other ways of measuring temperatures before that, though — not for individual dates, but they can ten the average temperature of a given year by such proxy measurements as growth marks in corals, deposits in ocean and lake sediments, and cores drilled into glacial ice. They can even use drawings of glaciers as there were hundreds of years ago compared with today.
And in the most comprehensive compilation of such data to date, says a new report from the National Research Council, it looks pretty certain that the last few decades have been hotter than any comparable period in the last 400 years. That’s a blow to those who claim the current warm spell is just part of the natural up and down of average temperatures — a frequent assertion of the global — warming-doubters crowd.
The report was triggered by doubts about past-climate claims made last year by climatologist Michael Mann, of the University of Virginia (he’s the creator of the "hockey stick" graph Al Gore used in "An Inconvenient Truth" to dramatize the rise in carbon dioxide in recent years). Mann claimed that the recent warming was unprecedented in the past thousand years — that led Congress to order up an assessment by the prestigious Research Council. Their conclusion was that a thousand years was reasonable, but not overwhelmingly supported by the data. But the past 400 was — so resoundingly that it fully supports the claim that today’s temperatures ale unnaturally warm, just as global warming theory has been predicting for a hundred years. And if there’s any doubt about whether these proxy measurements are really legitimate, the NRC scientists compared them with actual temperature data from the most recent century, when real thermometers were in widespread use. The match was more or less right on.
In the past nearly two decades since TIME first put global warming on the cover, then, the argument a-gainst it has gone from "it isn’t happening" to "it’s happening, but it’s natural", to "it’s mostly natural" — and now, it seems, that assertion too is going to have to drop away. Indeed. Rep. Sherwood Boehert.the New York Republican who chairs the House Science Committee and who asked for the report declared that it did nothing to support the notion of a controversy over global warming science — a controversy that opponents keep insisting is alive. Whether President Bush will finally take serious action to deal with the warming, how-ever, is a much less settled question.
What does this passage mainly deal with?
选项
A、The tendency of earth’s becoming hotter.
B、The assessment of earth’s temperature.
C、The menace of global warming.
D、The measurement of tackling global warming.
答案
A
解析
本题属主旨题,问“短文的主要内容是什么”。第二段中作者提到“…it looks pretty certain thatthe last few decades have been hotter than any comparable period in the last 400 years.”,即过去十几年达到了近四百年的最高温度。第三段中也说到Their conclusion was that a thousand years was reasonable,but not overwhelmingly supported by the data.But the past 400 was so resoundinglythat it fully supports the claim that today’s temperatures are unnaturally warm,…”,即数据不能充分说明地球的气温在过去一千年内一直上升,但能证明过去四百年中地球温度不合自然规律地在变暖。因此,短文的主题为A“地球变暖的趋势”正确。
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