CNN 2009-12-07

Right here is where you can find out why people get so riled up about the issue of climate change. This is CNN Student News. I'm your anchor Carl Azuz, let's go.

Forty six and cloudy, that's the forecast for Copenhagen, Denmark as a Climate Summit¹ brings in 15,000 world leaders and environmentalists. One big subject, no surprise, climate change. You may know from science class that the earth goes through warming and cooling periods. The last cooling one between the 1940s and the 1970s. Scientists say it's been getting steadily² warmer since  then. But there is a major disagreement about whether people have anything to do with it. Many leaders in Copenhagen don't wanna get hung up on that. They are trying to reach an international climate deal. It could limit greenhouse gases which many scientists blame for climate change. And in fact how much we pay in gas and electric bills. But one reason why an agreement could be hard to get. Recent accusations³ that scientists at a top research lab haven't told the whole truth about climate change. Mary Snow explains the situation:

Two weeks after computers were hacked⁴ at the UK's University of East Anglia and emails between climate scientists were posted on the internet. The head of the UN's climate science body told the BBC radio he wants an investigation⁵...
 

1 summit   

n.最高点，峰顶；最高级会议；极点

参考例句：

• They climbed up the mountain and reached the summit.他们爬山，最终达到了山顶。
• The summit of the mountain is lost in the cloud and mist.山顶隐没在云雾之中。

2 steadily   

adv.稳定地；不变地；持续地

参考例句：

• The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
• Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。

3 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
• He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。

4 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

5 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。