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In a 2016 study, Earnest and his colleagues successfullyshowedthat strokes had more severe outcomes in rats who experienced light-dark cycle shifts similar to humans in shift work positions.
2016年的一项研究中，欧内斯特和他的同事们成功证明，经历了类似于人类轮班工作的明暗周期轮换的小鼠，会遭遇更为严重的中风后果。
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Last month, a two-person start-up company by the name of Make Sunsets claimed that it had launched weather balloons filled with reflective sulfurparticlesinto the sky somewhere over the coast of Baja California. Moreprovocationthan experiment, the launch was a first-of-its-kind field test of a climate intervention known as geoengineering: a branch of speculative technology that promises tocounteractand even reverse global warming by altering Earth’s atmosphere.
上个月，一家由两个人成立的“落日计划”创业公司声称，他们已经在下加利福尼亚州海岸某处向天空发射了装满反射性硫颗粒的气象气球。与其说是实验，不如说是一种激发反应，此次发射是一种名为地球工程的气候干预方式的首次实地测试。地球工程是风险性技术领域的一个分支，有望通过改变地球大气的方式来抵消甚至扭转全球变暖。
If you find the prospect of experimenting on the atmosphere horrifying to contemplate, you’re not alone. Since last January, more than 360 climate and governance scholars have signed an open letter calling on national governments and the United Nations to restrict the development of solar engineering technology, contending that it poses an “unacceptable risk,” for three key reasons:
如果你认为在大气层上做实验的前景想想都令人震惊，那么不是你一个人这么觉得。自去年1月以来，360多名气候和治理学者签署了一封公开信，呼吁各国政府和联合国限制太阳工程技术的发展，认为其产生了“不可接受的风险”，主要原因有三个:
The side effects are too dangerous. Spraying sulfur into thestratospheremightbring downthe earth’s temperature, but it could also turn the sky white, change weather patterns, increase the spread of malaria, deplete the ozone layer and alter the light that plants need to grow. Some regions might suffer while others benefit, creating the potential for conflict.
副作用太危险了。向平流层喷洒硫磺可能会降低地球温度，但也会导致天空变白，改变天气模式，增加疟疾的传播，耗尽臭氧层，改变植物生长所需的光线。一些地区可能会受到不良影响，而另一些地区可能受益，这就埋下了爆发冲突的可能性。
It’s a false hope. Skeptics of geoengineering warn that it could detract from efforts to transition away from fossil fuels if it were inaccurately perceived as an insurance policy against climate change. Individuals might put off taking steps to reduce their carbon footprints, for example. More concerning, parties with a large stake in the fossil fuel industry might lobby for pumping sulfur into the air as an alternative to keeping oil and gas in the ground. Make Sunsets, the start-up, is already selling “cooling credits” as carbon offsets.
这是一个虚幻的希望。对地球工程持怀疑态度的人警告说，如果不当地认为这种方法是应对气候变化的兜底政策，它可能会降低人们投注在化石燃料转型上的努力。例如个人层面上，可能会推迟采取减少碳足迹的措施。更令人担忧的是，与化石燃料行业存在重大利害关系的政党可能会对向空气中喷洒硫的做法开展游说，借此替代将石油和天然气继续留在地下弃而不用的做法。创业公司“落日计划”已经把“冷却信用”作为一种碳补偿产品对外销售。
It’s undemocratic. Because solar geoengineering would affect the whole world, “countries powerful enough to develop and deploy technologies for solar geoengineering would need to place their technologies under the control of effective multilateral institutions, with guarantees of collective veto rights for the most vulnerable nations,” an extended version of the open letter argues. “The current world order seems unfit to reach such far-reaching agreements on fair and effective political control over solar geoengineering deployment.”
这种做法并不民主。由于太阳地球工程会对整个世界造成影响，“能力足以开发和部署太阳地球工程技术的国家，需要将其技术置于有效的多边机构的控制之下，并且保证弱势国家能够拥有集体否决权，”加长版本的公开信辩称。翻译划线句，长按文末小程序码打卡，答案下期公布~
本文节选自：The New York Times（纽约时报）
发布时间：2023.01.12
作者：Spencer Bokat-Lindell
原文标题：Should We Block the Sun to Counter Climate Change?
词汇积累
1. particle
/ˈpɑːtɪkəl/
n. 微粒; 极少量; 粒子(原子的极微小成分，如电子、质子或中子); (数)质点
2. provocation
/ˌprɒvəˈkeɪʃən/
n. 激怒，挑衅，挑衅性事件; 挑衅(行为或语言)
3. counteract
/ˌkaʊntərˈækt/
v. 抵制，抵消，中和
4. stratosphere
/ˈstrætəˌsfɪə/
n.平流层，同温层；最上层；最高阶段
词组搭配
1.bring down 降低；打倒，打死；击落
写作句总结
原句：The current world order seems unfit to reach such far-reaching agreements on fair and effective political control over solar geoengineering deployment.
结构：XX seems unfit to do sth
例句：The currentC pension reserves seems unfit to support the future needs of an ageing population.
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