0100 [00:18:57] "And the ice has stories to tell us. My friend, Lonnie Thompson, digs core drills in the ice. They dig down and they bring the core drills back up and they look at the ice and they study it. " (Al Gore)
core drill: ボーリングマシン (地質調査のために土壌を掘って円柱状のサンプル (ボーリングコアといいます) を取るためのドリルを特に core drill とよびます)dig: 突っ込む、めり込ませる
trap: 捉える、捕捉する
0300 [00:19:23] "What's even more interesting, I think, is they can measure the different isotopes of oxygen and figure out a very precise thermometer and tell you what the temperature was the year that that bubble was trapped in the snow as it fell. " (Al Gore)
figure out: 見つけ出すisotope: 同位元素
oxygen: 酸素原子
precise: 正確な
temperature: 温度、気温
thermometer: 温度計
0400 [00:19:41] "When I was in Antarctica, I saw cores like this. And a guy looked at it. He said, "Right here is where the US Congress passed the Clean Air Act." And I couldn't believe it. But you can see the difference with the naked eye. Just a couple years after that law was passed, it's very clearly distinguishable. " (Al Gore)
act: 法令、布告Antarctica: 南極
Congress: アメリカ連邦会議 (上院 (the Senate) と下院 (House of Representatives) で構成する立法府のことを指します)
core: ここではボーリングで切り出した円柱状の氷のサンプルのことです
distinguishable: 区別できる
naked: 裸の
naked eye: 肉眼、裸眼
the Clean Air Act: 大気汚染防止法、排ガス規制法
0500 [00:20:01] "They can count back year by year the same way a forester reads tree rings. And you can see each annual layer from the melting and refreezing. So they can go back, uh, in a lot of these mountain glaciers a thousand years. " (Al Gore)
count: 数えるforester: 森林労働者
melting: 溶融、融解
refreezing: 再凍結、再氷結
tree ring: 年輪
0600 [00:20:17] "And they constructed a thermometer of the temperature. The blue is cold and the red is warm. Now, I show this for a couple of reasons. " (Al Gore)
0700 [00:20:28] "Number one, the so-called skeptics will sometimes say, "Oh this whole thing, this is a cyclical phenomenon. There was a medieval warming period, after all." Well, yeah, there...there was. There...there it is right there. There are two others. " (Al Gore)
after all: やはり、どのみちcyclical: 周期的な
medieval: 中世の
period: 期間、時期
phenomenon: 現象、出来事
skeptic: 懐疑論者、疑い深い人
so-called: いわゆる
0800 [00:20:46] "But compared to what's going on now, there's just no comparison. " (Al Gore)
compared to: 〜と比較して、〜と比べるとcomparison: 比較、比べること、類似
There is no comparison.: 比較のしようがない。