纪录片《地球劫难日》 第31期 全球气温上升

（单词翻译）

Imagine the world for dicynodon as he crawls out of his hole in South Africa and looks at the sky.

想象一下一头南非的二齿兽正爬出洞口仰望天空。

It may be a bit purple, it may be a bit blue or red because of the very distant volcanic¹ eruptions² in Russia.

天空有点泛紫，时蓝时红，因为遥远的俄罗斯正在发生大规模火山爆发。

He may feel it a bit warmer at first.

它先是感到有点热。

Year by year progressively this gets worse and worse.

然后气候一年比一年糟。

There would have been a freezing winter followed by slow but steady global warming.

接着是一个严寒的冬天，随后又是缓慢而持久的全球变暖。

Gradually the world would have heated up by 4-5℃.

渐渐地全球气温上升了4-5℃。

On land some species died. Then the sea must have headed up.

陆地上的一些物种灭绝了。接着海洋开始升温。

Marine³ life would also have died. Then something new happened.

海洋生物也灭绝了。然后出现了新的情况。

The hotter water would have released the second killer⁴ from the deep, the methane⁵.

变暖的海水释放了困于海底的第二个杀手，甲烷。

This huge injection of greenhouse gas now pushed world temperatures up a further 5℃.

这大量涌出的温室气体使全球温度又升高了5℃。

The world was now 10℃ hotter.

此时地球比以前热了10℃。

A temperature rise of 10℃ may not sound very much,

气温上升10℃听起来不算很多，

but 10℃ would mean this part of the south of England would turn into the Sahara desert.

但这10℃意味着英国南部将变成撒哈拉沙漠。