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I – Chapter 05

0100 [00:14:36] "But I asked a question. Why is it that it goes up and down once each year? And he explained that if you look at the landmass of the earth, very little of it is south of the equator. " (Al Gore)

equator: 赤道
landmass: 陸塊

0200 [00:14:48] "The vast majority of it is north of the equator, and the most of the vegetation is north of the equator. " (Al Gore)

majority: 大多数、過半数
vast: 膨大な
vegetation: 植物、草木

0300 [00:17:54] "And so, when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, as it is in our spring and summer, the leaves come out and they breathe in carbon dioxide, and the amount in the atmosphere goes down. " (Al Gore)

breathe: 呼吸する、息をする
breathe in: 息を吸う
hemisphere: 半球
the Northern Hemisphere: 北半球
tilted: 傾いた

0400 [00:15:05] "But when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun as it is in our fall and winter, the leaves fall and exhale carbon dioxide and the amount in the atmosphere goes back up again. " (Al Gore)

exhale: 吐き出す

0500 [00:15:15] "And so, it's as if the entire Earth once each year breathe in and out. " (Al Gore)

0600 [00:15:23] "So we started measuring carbon dioxide in 1958. And you can see that, by the middle '60s when he showed my class this image, it was already clear that it was going up. I respected him and learned from him so much. I followed this. " (Al Gore)

respect: 尊敬する

0700 [00:15:40] "And when I went to the Congress in the middle 1970s, I helped to organize the first hearings on global warming and asked my professor to come and be the leadoff witness. And I thought that would have such a big impact, we'd be on the way to solving this problem, but it didn't work in that way." (Al Gore)

leadoff: 一番目の、最初の
the Congress: 国会
witness: 証人、参考人

0800 [00:15:55] "But I kept having hearings. And in 1984, I went to the Senate and really dug deeply into this issue with science round tables and the like. I wrote a book about it, ran for President in 1988, partly to try to gain some visibility for that issue. " (Al Gore)

round table: 円卓会議、少人数の会議
run for: 〜に立候補する
the President: アメリカ合衆国大統領
the Senate: 上院
visibility: 認知度、知名度

0900 [00:16:11] "And in 1992, went to the White House. We passed a version of a carbon tax and some other measures to try to address this. Went to Kyoto in 1997 to help get a treaty that's so controversial, in the US at least. " (Al Gore)

a version of: ある形の
controversial: 物議を醸している
Kyoto: 京都 (地球温暖化防止京都会議のことです)
measure: 手段、方策
treaty: 条約議定書、盟約、合意、契約

1000 [00:16:25] "In 2000, my opponent pledged to regulate CO2 and then...th...th...that was not a pledge that was kept. " (Al Gore)

pledge: 誓う、宣誓する
regulate: 規制する

1100 [00:16:34] "But the point of this is all this time, you can see what I have seen all these years. It just keeps going up. It is relentless. " (Al Gore)

relentless: 絶え間なく続く、執拗な、容赦ない
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