科学美国人60秒 SSS Isolated Low Temps May Reassure Climate Skeptics
时间：2018-12-02 作者：英语课 分类：2016年Scientific American(十二)月
Global warming deniers love to point to cold or snow as evidence against climate change. Like Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe. Remember last year, when he tossed a snowball in Congress? "You know what this is? It's a snowball. It's very, very cold out." With that, he offhandedly 1 disproved decades of climate science. To some people.
But such cold-influenced-denial may be playing out across the U.S., in particular in Appalachia and the South. Because it turns out those areas have had lots of record low temperatures in the last 12 years. And they're also by and large the same parts of the country that have high numbers of global warming skeptics. So researchers have a theory that personal experience with cold snaps could be trumping 2 scientific facts. The analysis is in the Proceedings 3 of the National Academy of Sciences. [Robert K. Kaufmann et al., Spatial 4 heterogeneity 5 of climate change as an experiential basis for skepticism]
Study author Robert Kaufmann, an environmental scientist at Boston University, says the way around this might be to put climate data in terms people understand: money. "We should propose a simple bet to climate skeptics. And that is: For every new record high temperature at a weather station, you pay us a dollar. And for every new record low temperature, we'll pay you a dollar."
Or, he says, think of climate change as a slot machine, especially with the president-elect. “He's run casinos. So you can kind of think of climate like a climate casino. If you were a casino owner and you had a machine that was constantly paying out more record high temperatures than more record low temperatures, you would look into that machine. Something's wrong with the machine. And that's what the climate machine has been doing."
However you think about it, Kaufmann won't be betting. "I got no dough 6, man, I'm an academic."
—Christopher Intagliata
- She had made these remarks offhandedly. 她即席做了这些评价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She threw him over offhandedly without even a dear-john letter. 她随即就把他甩了，甚至连封分手信都没有写。 来自互联网
- Reality has a way of trumping art, and human-climate change is very real indeed. 现实总有它的王牌艺术，受人类影响的气候变化的确成了事实。 来自互联网
- This quirky aversion may be a case of psychological security trumping physical comfort. 这种奇怪现象可能是缘于一个心理上的安全感战胜生理上的舒适感的例子。 来自互联网
- He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
- to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼
- This part of brain judges the spatial relationship between objects.大脑的这部分判断物体间的空间关系。
- They said that time is the feeling of spatial displacement.他们说时间是空间位移的感觉。
- The heterogeneity and uneven development of China's economy are rather advantageous in the war of resistance.中国经济的不统一、不平衡，对于抗日战争反为有利。
- In heterogeneity is creation of the world.世界产生自异质性。