I recently met a paleoclimatologist who explained that until a mere 40 million years ago Antarctica was warm and leafy.
而我最近遇到的一位古生物气象学家也告诉我，在四千万年以前，南极洲还是一派温暖宜人、枝繁叶茂的景象。
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Lonnie Thompson, a paleoclimatologist at Ohio State University in Columbus, who did the earlier work noting the rise of dust, says he was "impressed" with the data and called the work "thoughtful."
哥伦布市（Columbus）俄亥俄州立大学（Ohio State Universit）的古气象学家Lonnie Thompson在其早期工作中曾注意到尘土增加的现象，他表示对Conroy提供的数据很感兴趣并且认为他们的研究充满思考性。