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世界気象機関、今年の気温過去5番目の高さと発表
Climate experts say information for the first ten years of the twenty-first century will probably show it to be the warmest ten-year period ever measured. The World Meteorological Organization released the findings on the second day of a climate conference in Copenhagen. The head of the organization, Michel Jarraud, spoke to representatives of one hundred ninety-two nations. He said the final temperature will be released early next year. He said this year will probably be the fifth warmest since scientists began keeping world climate records in eighteen fifty. Environmentalists and activists have criticized an early version of a climate change deal that conference officials are trying to create. They say the deal strongly favors rich countries over the concerns of developing nations.
 語彙  
2009/12/09公開
century
世紀
 
a period of one hundred years
finding
研究結果
the information from a study
conference
会議
a large meeting of people who come to a place to discuss a topic
organization
機構
a group created with a purpose
representative
代表
a person who speaks for someone or a group
environmentalist
環境保護主義者
a person with strong interest in the natural world
activist
活動家
a person who works strongly toward a policy
criticize
批判する
to speak against a person or an idea
version
見解
one of two or more forms of an idea or a plan
concern
懸念事項
 
the topics which a person or a group care very much about