on Climate change, 政府间气候变化专门委员会，简称IPCC,是一个附属于联合国之下的跨政府组织、在1988年由世界气象组织、联合国环境署合作成立，专门负责研究由人类活动所造成的气候变迁。改委员会本身并不进行研究工作，其主要工作时发表和执行《联合国气候变化框架公约》有关的专题报告。

glacier
n. 冰河；冰川
eg. Rocks of assorted sizes and shapes are embeded in the bottom of a glacier.
多种尺寸和形状的岩石都埋藏在冰川的底部。

buzz
n. vi. 发出嗡嗡声
eg. There was some little buzz of conversation going on among the people.
不时听得人群中有喁喁私语的声音。

percursor
n. 预兆
eg. Viewed as a precursor to a wider open data movement, it could be as important as any we have seen in the web era.
它被视为更宽泛的数据开放运动的先导，它将像我们在互联网时代看到的所有重要的事物一样重要。

specter
n. 幽灵，恐怖之物
eg. No man, if he be truthful, can say that the specter of war is banished.
没有人，如果他是真诚的，能够说战争的幽灵已经被消除。

nonlinear
adj. 非线性的
eg. Snake is linear, but when it feeds back into itself it becomes the archetype of nonlinear being.
蛇是线性的，但当它回身咬住自己的时候，它就变成了非线性物体的原型。

thawing
n. 融解
eg. Frozen products should show no signs of thawing.
冷冻产品应显示没有解冻的迹象。

permafrost
n. 永久冻土
eg. Canadian researchers expressed serious concerns about the erosion of permafrost in the Arctic.
加拿大研究人员对北极地区永冻层的侵蚀表示严重关切。

immense
adj. 巨大的
eg. They plunged into their work with immense zeal.
他们以极大的热情投入工作。

millennia
n. 千年期（millennium的复数）
eg.
These forests have reigned supreme for countless millennia.
这些森林生长繁茂已有千万年之久。

microbe
n. 细菌，微生物
eg. The experiments result is that the microbe play a part of the role of the promotion on form of the bronze disease.
实验结果表明：微生物在青铜腐蚀中起了促进作用。

debris
n. 碎片，残骸，（冰川积聚的的）碎石
eg. The debris has piled up against the wall.
那堵墙下瓦砾成堆。

edible
adj. 可食用的
eg. This week, the talk in the blogoma seems to be about all things edible.
这个星期，摩洛哥博客圈谈论的似乎是关于所有可食的东西。

methane
n. 甲烷
eg. Whatever oxidises the methane would itself get used up in the process, and so would also need to be replenished.
无论是什么物质氧化了甲烷，自身都会在这一过程中殆尽，因此也需要不断的被补充。

runaway
adj. 失控的；逃亡的
eg. Our June sale was a runaway success.
我们6月份的促销大获成功。