And what should countries do to prepare for more intense droughts and storms?

国家应该怎样为应对更严峻的干旱和风暴做好准备？

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To many Australians, these droughts and storms seem to have become more frequent and violent, and some people are inclined to blame global warming.

对于澳大利亚的许多人来说，干旱和暴风似乎变得更频繁和激烈，并且一些人把这变化归咎于全球变暖。

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Years of heavy spring and early summer rains, mild winters, and frequent Atlantic storms, or to periods of droughts, light northeasterly winds, and summer heat waves.

多年的春季和初夏大雨，温和的冬季，频繁的大西洋风暴，或干旱时期，轻微的东北风，和夏季热浪。

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They say the effects of more storms, floods,droughts and heat waves will be abrupt and profound.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Some climate scientists think the Australian continent is particularly susceptible to a shifting climate and predict a greater incidence of droughts, floods and storms as the Earth warms.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

On the the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, this warming planet we live on is posing serious new challenges to human civilization: increasingly severe droughts, floods,and storms across the globe, and slowly rising ocean levels.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

In their research paper, the two scientists say that using a mixture of archived news reports and real-time data, they were able to see links between droughts and storms in parts of Africa and cholera outbreaks.

BBC: News headlines used to predict future events

Central America, most of Africa, much of south Asia and northern China could all be hit by droughts, storms and floods and otherwise made miserable.

ECONOMIST: Blowing hot and cold

On top of the effects of the warming trend come more frequent and extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and storms which directly cause death and injury and open the door to other serious health problems, according to WWF.

CNN: Global warming may harm human health