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1.随着历史洪水由飓风 Helene 变得缓和，退回到美国东南方，该地区面临一项人性主义、经济的、生态环境的危机，来源于人们蹒跚不稳定的观点，同时，其效果很可能持续好几年。
百度翻译：随着飓风海伦引发的历史性洪水在美国东南部退去，该地区面临着规模惊人的人道主义、经济和生态危机，其影响可能会持续数年。
floodwaters 洪水
unleaashed 释放
2.这场灾难已然开启了一些小的机会，针对 Harris 和 Trump 的拉票活动的，以此来找到折中方法，这些都在昨晚开展的副总统辩论会上阐明。然而，这场风暴也创造了一系列关于美国大选的后勤问题。
百度翻译：正如昨晚的副总统辩论所证明的那样，这场灾难为哈里斯和特朗普的竞选团队找到了一个达成共识的小机会。尽管如此，这场风暴也为美国大选的投票带来了一系列后勤问题。
a host of logistical issues 一系列后勤问题
01 Helene 进入讨论了
By Jennifer A Dlouhy and Ari Natter
3.周四晚上有那么几刻，这个为了争夺美国副总统的地位展开竞争的人，找到共同点了。无论是共和党 Vance，或者民主党 Tim ，一致同意飓风 Helene 已然使得 150 人丧生，留给人们一个死亡考验，以及席卷美国东南部的灾难，是一个十足的灾难。
百度翻译：周二晚上，争夺下一任美国副总统的男子们找到了共同点。共和党人JD Vance和民主党人Tim Walz都认为，飓风海伦是一场可怕的悲剧，已经造成150多人死亡，并在美国东南部留下了死亡和破坏的痕迹。
vying to 争夺某事物
found common ground 找到共同点
4.这场风暴将洪水带到靠山的小镇，以及内陆，这些地方都远离海岸，强调了这场气候危机的急速。
百度翻译：这场风暴给远离国家海岸的山区城镇和内陆地区带来了洪水，突显了气候危机的紧迫性。
5.“人们有理由担忧所有这些疯狂的天气” Vance 说到。
百度翻译：万斯说：“人们有理由担心所有这些疯狂的天气模式。”。
6. 然而，这些相似性在这里戛然而止，Vance 在 2020 年的时候，斩钉截铁地承认：“显然，我们的气候有问题。”周四的时候，Vance 通过提出“关于天气威胁的原因”这样的问题，向特朗普借用其书上的一页（即借鉴特朗普观点）。讨论很多，“关于碳排放的想法，全都来源于气候变化”Vance 说到，在贴出这样的标语之前：“就让我们说这是真的 —— 仅是为了争论，因此我们不仅争论奇怪的科学。”
百度翻译：但相似之处到此为止。万斯在2020年明确承认我们“当然有气候问题”，周二他借用了唐纳德·特朗普的剧本，对威胁的原因提出了质疑。万斯说，有很多人在谈论“碳排放导致所有气候变化的想法”，然后他提出：“让我们说这是真的——只是为了争论，所以我们不仅仅是在争论奇怪的科学。”
8.Harris 是民主党候选人，他期待继续拜登在图表上的轨迹（continue the trajectory charted by President Joe Biden），使用的方式是，联合联储刺激和监管，以鼓励清洁能源和缩减温室气体排放。
百度翻译：民主党候选人卡玛拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）在很大程度上有望继续乔·拜登（Joe Biden）总统所描绘的轨迹，利用联邦激励措施和法规相结合，鼓励清洁能源的部署并削减温室气体排放。
9.Walz 喊出特朗普，因其将气候变化称为“骗局（hoax）”，以及称赞拜登-哈里斯政府，因为他们刺激了被特朗普称为“大量投资、全球最大投资”在清洁能源生产及制造。
百度翻译：沃尔兹指责特朗普将气候变化称为“骗局”，并赞扬拜登-哈里斯政府在清洁能源生产和制造业方面刺激了他所谓的“全球历史上最大的大规模投资”。
hoax 欺骗
lauded 称赞
10.明尼苏达的农民已然获得这些（投资），Walz 说到：“我们明尼苏达农场主，知道气候变化是真是的。他们已然见证了 500 年之最的干旱，500 那年之最的洪水，背靠背的。”但是，他添加：“我们第一名的出口，并非大量风暴席卷的、被腐蚀的表土（耕作层的土壤）”。
百度翻译：沃尔兹说，明尼苏达州的农民已经明白了这一点：“我在明尼苏达州的农场主知道气候变化是真实的。他们已经连续经历了500年的干旱和500年的洪水。”但是，他补充道：“我们的第一出口不可能是这些大规模风暴侵蚀的表层土。”
02 地面战斗中最严重的打击
By Zahra Hirji
12.很多死亡和 Helene 飓风有关，在北卡的 Buncombe 郡，这是 Asheville 城市的中心。随着民意测试变得更加不明了，以及数以千计的居民投错地方。
13.“投票站点可能被泥石流改变了。投票站还可能触达不了，因为路损坏了。现在投票站建立在树上，因为树倒下把它们压在了下面。” Karen 说到，她是北卡州大选委员会的执行总监，她周四致电记者。
14. 并非只有美国大选才有这类鼓励（投票不足问题）。投票少了 25 万，从全国方面而言，其中 1 万缺席投票来自 Asheville 地区，依据 Bob 说辞，他是北卡事业部的无党派非营利组织的总监。Helene 席卷的时候，有些投票已然被送达，或者至少在信箱里了（言下之意，飓风影响是有限的）。
15.今年的美国大选，很多事情都很重要。北卡执行了一系列超规模影响，主题是谁能入驻白宫办公。没什么比这更让人头疼的了：最近民意测验显示，民主党 Harris 和共和党 特朗普 是有效连接的。以及当飓风来临时候，“这能使得投票人参与大选的比例降低”，Kevin 说到，这人是高级研究员，研究投票策略，在纽约大学的 Brennan 法律中心。
Nowhere is more of a toss-up 没什么比这更让人头疼的了
16.然而，过去美国的灾难显示，选举官方能够获得创意，助力保证以下的一切不会发生 —— 从临时投票点到移动民测站。
17.问题在于美国大选以及司法机构是否拥抱这种灵活性。如果他们不待见这种灵活性，共和党们可能有更多需要失去的，Phillips 强调，25 个村中 23 个被席卷得最严重，还被指定获得联邦灾难救助，这些都是共和党人，他们在 2020 年的时候，投票给到 特朗普。
designated 指定的
03 也在我们的雷达上
18.台风 Krathon 逐渐转移到台湾，同时风暴必然减弱，在周四早晨登陆之前，以及不明显地使得保持岛屿 2.5 万亿美元的股票市场在（登陆）第二天闭市。
make landfall 登陆
19.Krathon 目前保持最大速度，162 千米每小时（101 英里每小时），依据台湾气象中心。风暴预计穿过海岸线，在台南和高雄之间。
20.台风在它的形式上已经减弱，气象局预测台风将达到最大速度 119 公里每小时，随着它吹到海岸，伴随着大雨。这将等同于 类别 I 的飓风，基于 5 步 Saffir-Simpson 测量。
weather bureau 气象局
04 更多环保
21.旅游业再次被迫抑制其对应的气候友好型市场。荷兰广告法案周三宣称，他们告诉 MSC 轮游，他们必须释放环保的承诺，体现在其发行于荷兰的广告。这件事发生在环境运动者抱怨，他们的广告涉及“漂绿”（本身没有环保性质，但是附会）。
22.MSC 轮游可能不再会采取上述宣称，因为“他们跨了一大步，在 2050 碳中和的议题上”，或者他们使用的液化天然气是船只的清洁能源，依据 9.30 的判决，由荷兰广告委员会作出的判决。彭博环保之前也报导，关于不可见的气候影响，从开船操作，到液化天然气动力船。
liquefied natural gas 液化天然气
verdict 判决
LNG-powered vessel 液化天然气动力船
23.今年早些时候，阿姆斯特丹法庭管理荷兰航空那些被误导的客户，被广告误导，因为广告暗示他们的航班是气候友好型的。在英国，广告电子狗（AD watchdog）也会否决这类航空可持续发展主张。
AD watchdog 广告电子狗
24.科学家们已然试图去理解，以及模仿，几个世纪以来太阳产生能源的方式。但是，通过注入核能源重新制造这种生产能源的过程，显示一系列技术挑战。Bob Mumgaard 是 Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO，开始着手于一些挑战，作为一个 MIT 博士而言。现在由超过 2 万亿美元支持，CFS 在其自身道路上也走的不错，还打算形成长效机制 —— 抱有梦想，关于实现核能注入。Zero 最近一期， Bob 解释了 CFS 研究的反应堆背后的科学原理， 他还解释了为什么他相信这行业，这一切只是开始。有兴趣的伙伴可以在 Apple 上订阅彭博。
bagel-shaped tokamak reactor XXX 反应堆
Original Article
1.As historic floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Helene recede across the US Southeast, the region faces a humanitarian, economic and ecological crisis of staggering scope, with effects likely to last years.
2.The devastation has opened up a small opportunity for the Harris and Trump campaigns to find mutual agreement, as was demonstrated in the vice presidential debate last night. Still, the storm has also created a host of logistical issues for voting in the US election.
Read on for more — and get the full story on Bloomberg.com.
Helene enters the debate
By Jennifer A Dlouhy and Ari Natter
3.For a few moments Tuesday night, the men vying to be the next US vice president found common ground. Both Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz agreed that Hurricane Helene, which has killed more than 150 people and left a trail of death and devastation across the Southeast US, was a horrible tragedy.
4.The storm brought floodwaters to mountain towns and inland fields far from the nation’s coasts, underscoring the immediacy of the climate crisis.
5.“People are justifiably worried about all these crazy weather patterns,” Vance said.
6.But the similarities ended there. Vance, who in 2020 was definitive in acknowledging we “of course have a climate problem,” on Tuesday borrowed a page from Donald Trump's playbook by raising questions about the cause of the threat. There’s a lot of talk about “this idea that carbon emissions drives all the climate change,” Vance said, before positing: “Let’s just say that’s true — just for the sake of argument, so we’re not just arguing about weird science.”
7.It was a blunt reminder of the chasm between the Republican and Democratic presidential tickets, when it comes to the climate crisis. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has vowed to claw back investments in what he calls Washington's “green new scam” while mocking wind turbines and electric vehicles.
Read More: Pollution, Wind, EVs: Trump Risks Upending Biden’s Climate Work
8.Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, is largely expected to continue the trajectory charted by President Joe Biden, using a combination of federal incentives and regulations to encourage clean energy deployment and slash greenhouse gas emissions.
9.Walz called out Trump for calling climate change a “hoax” and lauded the Biden-Harris administration for spurring what he called “massive investments, the biggest in global history” in clean energy production and manufacturing.
10.Farmers in Minnesota already get it, Walz said: “My farmers in Minnesota know climate change is real. They’ve seen 500-year droughts, 500-year floods, back to back.” But, he added: “Our No. 1 export cannot be topsoil from erosion from these massive storms.”
The view from the hardest hit battleground state
By Zahra Hirji
11.The unprecedented flooding caused by Hurricane Helene as it barreled into western North Carolina, washing away homes, roads and entire towns, is already disrupting voting there and injecting new uncertainty into the state’s high-stakes elections.
12.Many of the deaths linked to Helene were in North Carolina’s Buncombe County, home to the city of Asheville. With the status of polling places in the region unclear and thousands of residents displaced.
13.“There may be polling places affected by mudslides. There may be polling places inaccessible because of damaged roads. There may be polling places with trees that have fallen on them,” said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, in a call with reporters on Tuesday.
14.It’s not just election day voting that’s a concern. Some 250,000 absentee ballot requests have been made across the state, with roughly 10,000 just in the Asheville region, according to Bob Phillips, executive director of the nonpartisan nonprofit Common Cause North Carolina. Some of those ballots had only just been delivered or were in the mail when Helene rammed through.
15.A lot is at stake in the state’s elections this year. North Carolina exerts outsized influence over who will end up in the White House. Nowhere is more of a toss-up: The latest polling shows Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are effectively tied. And when catastrophe strikes, “it can cause voters to participate in elections at a lower rate,” said Kevin Morris, a senior research fellow and voting policy scholar at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice.
16.Yet past disasters in the US show election officials can get creative to help ensure this doesn’t happen — from temporary voting sites to mobile polling stations.
17.The question is whether state election officials and the legislature embrace this type of flexibility. If they don’t, Republicans may have more to lose, Phillips noted: 23 of the 25 counties hit hardest by the storm and designated to get federal disaster assistance are overwhelmingly Republican and voted for Trump in 2020.
Read the full story here — and for unlimited access to climate and energy news, please subscribe.
Also on our radar
18.Typhoon Krathon tracked slowly toward Taiwan, with the storm set to weaken before making landfall on Thursday morning and potentially keep the island’s $2.5 trillion stock market closed for a second day.
19.Krathon currently has maximum sustained winds of 162 kilometers (101 miles) per hour, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration. The storm is expected to cross the coast between the cities of Tainan and Kaohsiung.
20.The typhoon has weakened on its approach, and the weather bureau forecasts it will have maximum wind speeds of 119 kilometers per hour as it hits the coast, dumping heavy rain. That will make it equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.
More from Green
21.The travel industry is once again being forced to curb its climate friendly marketing. The Dutch Advertising Code Committee announced on Wednesday that it told MSC Cruises it must drop some green claims in its advertisements in the Netherlands after environmental campaigners complained that its ads amount to greenwashing.
22.MSC Cruises should no longer make claims that it “is making great strides to be net zero by 2050” or that liquefied natural gas is a clean shipping fuel, according to a Sept. 30 verdict by the Dutch Advertising Code Committee. Bloomberg Green has previously reported about the invisible climate impacts from cruise operators switching to LNG-powered vessels.
23.Earlier this year, an Amsterdam court ruled that Dutch airline KLM misled customers through advertisements that suggested its flights are climate friendly. In the UK, the advertising watchdog has also cracked down on airlines’ sustainability claims.
Worth a listen
24.Scientists have been trying to understand — and mimic — the way the sun produces energy for centuries. But recreating the energy-generating process of nuclear fusion here on Earth presents an array of technical challenges. Bob Mumgaard, CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, began working on some of those challenges as a doctoral student at MIT. Now backed by more than $2 billion, CFS is well on its way to making the long-held dream of nuclear fusion a reality. On the latest episode of Zero, Mumgaard breaks down the science behind CFS’s bagel-shaped tokamak reactor, and explains why he believes the nuclear fusion industry is just getting started. Listen now, and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube to get new episodes of Zero every Thursday.
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