settle back (context)

Spanish translation: restablecerse/regresar

21:37 Oct 24, 2009

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Science - Environment & Ecology / environment and ecology

English term or phrase: settle back (context)

Until a few months ago, government targets for cutting greenhouse gases at least had the virtue of being wrong. They were the wrong targets, by the wrong dates, and they bore no relationship to the stated aim of preventing more than 2C of global warming. But they used a methodology that even their sternest critics (myself included) believed could be improved until it delivered the right results: the cuts just needed to be raised and accelerated.
Three papers released earlier this year changed all that. The first, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in February, showed that the climate change we cause today will be "largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop". About 40% of the carbon dioxide produced by humans this century will remain in the atmosphere until at least the year 3000. Moreover, thanks to the peculiar ways in which the oceans absorb heat from the atmosphere, global average temperatures are likely to "remain approximately constant ... until the end of the millennium despite zero further emissions".
In other words, governments' hopes about the trajectory of temperature change are ill-founded. Most, including the UK's, are working on the assumption that we can overshoot the desired targets for temperature and atmospheric concentrations of CO2, then watch them settle back later. What this paper shows is that, wherever temperatures peak, that is more or less where they will stay. There is no going back.

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Spanish translation:restablecerse/regresar

Explanation:
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Note added at 15 mins (2009-10-24 21:52:37 GMT)
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o asentarse de nuevo

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Aitor Aizpuru
Mexico
Local time: 14:40

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4 +2

restablecerse/regresar

Aitor Aizpuru

retroceder/volver atrás

Asier Merino

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peer agreement (net): +2

restablecerse/regresar

Explanation:
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Note added at 15 mins (2009-10-24 21:52:37 GMT)
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o asentarse de nuevo

Aitor Aizpuru
Mexico
Local time: 14:40
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

French
PRO pts in category: 24

10 hrs confidence:

retroceder/volver atrás

Explanation:
otra opción; si nos referimos a los niveles de CO2, también creo que serían válidas estas dos opciones...

Asier Merino
Local time: 22:40
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Catalan,

Spanish

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