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Experts Calls for Measures to Curb Global Warming
From CRIENGLISH.com
The World Meteorological Organization[世界气象组织] has warned that the earth's wild weather this year is bursting[突然发作; 突然打开; 挤满] the annual heat record due to man-made global warming[人为的全球变暖], and this is compounded[混合，组合] by a strong El Nino[厄尔尼诺现象].
According to an early bird report on 2015 from the United Nations' weather agency, this year will be the warmest year on record.
Michel Jarraud, Secretary General[秘书长，总干事，总书记] of the World Meteorological Organization, said the world might have warmed by as much as 1 degree Celsius over pre-industrial times[工业化前的；未工业化的时代].
"So in a sense[在某种意义上，在一定程度上;] if we want to stay under 2 degrees Celsius, we have already warmed the atmosphere by more than half of what we need to do, so this is actually of great concern because as we said in the press conference[记者招待会，新闻发布会;] on greenhouse gases[温室气体;], whatever CO2 has been emitted]发出，放出] in the atmosphere stays there for very long time - for decades to centuries, so time is really not on our side[站在我们这边;对我们有利]."
International leaders have set a goal of keeping global warming within 2 degrees Celsius[控制在2摄氏度之内] of pre-industrial times.
Omar Baddour, a climate expert at the World Meteorological Organization, predicted that next year might be even warmer due to the El Nino effect.
"If we look at the previous year, 2014, which was last year the warmest on record, it was not an El Nino year, and this year is not actually the full El Nino year, it is still starting and it will pick up next year, so what we can expect roughly[粗略地; 大体上; 大致上] is that next year might be warmer than this year because of the effect of El Nino."
Dr. Youba Sokona, vice chairman[副会长; 副委员长; 副议长; [体]副主席] of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[政府间气候变化委员会IPCC], warned that global warming is an indisputable[无可争辩的; 不容置疑的; 无可否认的; 无可讳言;] fact.
He said several messages were conveyed[表达;传达] through the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report[第五次评估报告] released last November.
"Out of the 17 pages, we can exact[要求; 苛求; 迫使; 强求;] three main key messages from the report. First, there is no doubt that climate change is unequivocal[不含糊的; 明确的; 毫不含糊]. There is no doubt about it. The second message is that the more we disrupt our climate system[破坏气候系统], the more we face severe, pervasive[普遍的; 扩大的; 渗透的; 弥漫的], disruptive[分裂性的; 破坏的; 扰乱的] consequences, impacts, and those might then be irreversible[不可逆的; 不能翻转的; 不能倒置的; [法]不可取消的;]. And the last one is a message of hope. Still we do have means to build, present and better future."
The report warned that discreet[谨慎的，慎重的; 考虑周到的; 小心的; 持重;] climate changes monitored since the 1950s were unprecedented[前所未有的，无前例的; 空前的; 无比的; 新奇的，崭新的;].
It also pointed out that if no greater efforts were made, global warming may result in severe and irreversible consequences in large areas of the world by the end of this century.
For CRI, I'm Xie Cheng.
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