我今天阅读了新闻，哦，男孩：早晨文件，2015年1月17日，星期六

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1.湖少校疏散

The city issuedthis press release昨天晚上：

Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 (Halifax, NS) – The Halifax Regional Municipality, in coordination with Halifax Water and emergency management agencies, has declared a mandatory evacuation of approximately 135 homes near Little Salmon River, downstream of Lake Major dam, on Saturday, Jan. 17, due to work happening on the dam.

建议居民对公众没有立即的风险。如果在工作中违反大坝，这是一种预防措施。

哈利法克斯地区皇家骑警官员和地面搜索和救援志愿者今天晚上挨家挨户，建议受影响的居民在周六上午8点之前必须离开家。如果居民没有其他住宿，则要求他们致电311号公民联络中心。

Evacuation warming centres will be open for displaced residents starting at 8 a.m. Saturday at the following two locations:

• East Preston Community Centre, 24 Brooks Dr., East Preston
• 韦斯特法尔大街946号城市高地教堂

Halifax Water crews discovered an issue with the fish ladder adjoining the Lake Major dam during a recent routine inspection. The dam is structurally sound; however, repairs to the fish ladder need to move ahead right away.

The maintenance work is scheduled to take place starting at 9 a.m. until approximately 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17.

这项工作正在进行时，大坝区域的六座桥梁中有四座将被关闭。其中包括少校路，鲑鱼河大道，起重机山路和罗斯路的桥梁。107号高速公路和207号高速公路上的桥梁将全天保持开放，禁止维护期间任何问题。

可以通过@halifaxwater的Halifax.ca网站和Twitter的公民联络中心，@halifaxwater的公民联络中心获得进一步的更新。

The evacuation area stretches from North Preston downstream all the way to Cole Harbour.

A (remotely) possible dam break? Evacuation of hundreds of people? This is the CBC’s raison d’être. They’ll beliveblogging the entire thingfrom every possible angle.

2. Pedestrian struck by car struck by van

昨天是第一次报道的行人事件at the new roundabout：

下午1:20,警方对车辆/ ped作出回应rian collision at the intersection of Agricola and Cunard Streets. A 61-year-old woman was crossing Agricola Street in a marked crosswalk at the exit of the roundabout. A car exiting the roundabout was stopped to allow the pedestrian to cross safely when it was rear-ended by a cargo van. The impact moved the car forward and hit the pedestrian. The pedestrian suffered non-life threatening injuries and was transported to hospital by EHS.

根据《机动车法》第117（1）条，一名35岁的驾驶货车的男子被签发了一张摘要犯罪票。这张票在定罪后罚款233.95美元，驾驶驾驶执照两分。

3. Ship contract

The federal government says it has reached a final contract with Irving Shipyard. “The government had originally planned to build six to eight ships but announced Friday that number is down to five or six,”reports Paul McLeod。建设定于9月开始。

4. Dartmouth’s (potentially) killer weeds

The city’sEnvironment and Sustainability committee正在处理达特茅斯湖中的杂草问题。本文是审查员的薪资墙的背后，因此仅适用于付费订户。要购买订阅，click here。

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1.使新的渡轮访问

凯特·沃森links tothispost from Daniel Towsey, written last September. I hadn’t been aware of Towsey’s site. He calls himself a “Canadian Truther,” and posts stuff about 911, Chemtrails, “Indigo Cosmic Spiritual Beings,” and so forth, and the site has a very 1995-alien abduction conspiracy site design vibe to it. (Easy on those fonts, Daniel, you’ll poke someone’s eye out.) But that aside, Towsey, who uses a wheelchair, posts the above video demonstrating the problems he has navigating outside the Woodside Ferry Terminal.

Towsey also very much dislikes the newest ferry, the Christopher Stannix, and posts photos showing how the seats are too close together, there isn’t room for baby carriages or bicycles, and the doors are too narrow for motorized chairs.

2. Cranky letter of the day

To the Truro Daily News, in response todeputy mayor Raymond Tynes’ complaintabout a toy monkey mocking black people being sold at a local store:

Recently a prominent Truro citizen was upset about a few words on a monkey doll.

This attitude prompted me to reflect on the different thinking of people whose glass is either half full or half empty. According to fairly recent scientific knowledge, monkeys and apes are our ancestors and personally I’m very proud of my ancestors of how they persevered through hardships from the beginning to present and, by the way, have you ever heard the phrase used when someone does something naughty but nice, “you little monkey,” which is always a term of endearment.

In my opinion, the average Nova Scotian is better off than the kings and queens of old. We have better housing, central heating, better transportation, automobiles, healthier and more varieties of food and more overall choices in our life, etc., etc. So where could you find the time and energy to worry about what’s written on a doll? Knowledgeable, positive people are overjoyed that they were born in this time and place and the opportunities available to them. I personally thank Mother Nature that my glass is more than three quarters full.

Frank Dominey, Fort Ellis

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Yesterday, news reports noted two alarming new academic papers related to climate change.

The first is “Probabilistic reanalysis of twentieth-century sea-level rise,” written哈佛大学的Carling Hay和Eric Morrow，并在自然界发表。摘要是密集的，并为其他科学家清楚地写了：

为二十世纪gl估计和会计obal mean sea-level (GMSL) rise is critical to characterizing current and futurehuman-induced sea-level change. Several previous analyses of tide gauge records—employing different methods to accommodate the spatial sparsity and temporal incompleteness of the data and to constrain the geometry of long-term sea-level change—have concluded that GMSL rose over the twentieth century at a mean rate of 1.6 to1.9 millimetres per year. Efforts to account for this rate by summing estimates of individual contributions from glacier and ice-sheet mass loss, ocean thermal expansion, and changes in land water storage fall significantly short in the period before 1990. The failure to close the budget of GMSL during this period has led to suggestions that several contributions may have been systematically underestimated. However, the extent to which the limitations of tide gauge analyses have affected estimates of the GMSL rate of change is unclear. Here we revisit estimates of twentieth-century GMSL rise using probabilistic techniques and find a rate of GMSL rise from 1901 to 1990 of 1.2 ± 0.2 millimetres per year (90% confidence interval). Based on individual contributions tabulated in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this estimate closes the twentieth-century sea-level budget. Our analysis, which combines tide gauge records with physics-based and model-derived geometries of the various contributing signals, also indicates that GMSL rose at a rate of 3.0 ± 0.7 millimetres per year between 1993 and 2010, consistent with prior estimates from tide gauge records.The increase in rate relative to the 1901–90 trend is accordingly larger than previously thought; this revision may affect some projections of future sea-level rise.

Washington Post reporter Terrence McCoytranslates that into English：

研究人员提出了一种衡量海平面上升的新方法，而新闻不好：在过去的二十年中，海洋的增长速度远远超过了任何人所知。

For hundreds of years, the seas were measured by more or less the equivalent of plopping a yard stick into the ocean and seeing if the ocean went up or down. But now, that method looks to be outdated.

根据新研究published on Wednesday in Nature, the new method involves an advanced statistical model that analyzes all of the factors contributing to sea rise. It has yielded what appears to be a much more accurate picture of the oceans and suggests previous studies had severely underestimated the acceleration of recent sea rise.

首席作家埃里克·莫罗（Eric Morrow）在一份声明中说：“本文表明，过去一个世纪的海平面加速比其他人估计要大。”“这比我们最初想象的要大。”合着者卡林·海伊（Carling Hay）在接受BBC采访时补充说：“过去二十年的加速比以前想象的要差得多。这种新的加速度比以前的估计高约25％。”

The second paper is “Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet,” written by 18 climate change researchers and published in the journal Science. The abstract:

行星边界框架定义了一个安全的operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability of the Earth System. Here, we revise and update the planetary boundaries framework, with a focus on the underpinning biophysical science, based on targeted input from expert research communities and on more general scientific advances over the past 5 years. Several of the boundaries now have a two-tier approach, reflecting the importance of cross-scale interactions and the regional-level heterogeneity of the processes that underpin the boundaries. Two core boundaries—climate change and biosphere integrity—have been identified, each of which has the potential on its own to drive the Earth System into a new state should they be substantially and persistently transgressed.

华盛顿邮政科学作家乔尔·阿坎巴赫（Joel Achenbach）翻译：

按照速度，接下来几十年的地球可能不再是人类的“安全操作空间”。这就是18位研究人员在《科学》杂志上发表的一篇新论文的结论，该论文试图衡量自然界的突破点。

该论文认为我们已经跨越了四个“行星边界”。它们是灭绝率；森林砍伐；大气中二氧化碳的水平；以及氮和磷（用作肥料）的流动流入海洋。

“What the science has shown is that human activities — economic growth, technology, consumption — are destabilizing the global environment,” said Will Steffen, who holds appointments at the Australian National University and the Stockholm Resilience Center and is the lead author of the paper.

These are not future problems, but rather urgent matters, according to Steffen, who said that the economic boom since 1950 and the globalized economy have accelerated the transgression of the boundaries. No one knows exactly when push will come to shove, but he said the possible destabilization of the “Earth System” as a whole could occur in a time frame of “decades out to a century.”

But, hey, gas is 85 cents a litre, so no worries.

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在港口

BBC Maryland，集装箱船，直布罗陀到Fairview Cove，然后航行到纽约的奥尔巴尼

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有点妮利。