Climate change will also be a multiplier of poverty, as increasingly erratic weather induces more drought, flooding, erosion and soil degradation.

气候变化也将导致贫困倍增，因为越来越不规则的天气现象导致更多的干旱、洪水、水土流失和土壤退化。

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The impacts of climate change - rising temperatures and more erratic rainfall - are here already from Latin America to the Sahel, said Gnacadja.

尼亚卡贾说，从拉丁美洲到萨赫勒地区，气候变化的影响-气温上升和越发不稳定的降雨-已经显现。

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And the hope that gainers from climate change will outweigh losers looks vain: the damage from higher temperatures and erratic rainfall will be too big.

气候变化受益者多于受害者的期望也落了空：温度升高和雨量反常造成的灾害实在太大。

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Pollution,drought and erratic weather patterns caused by climate change have already decimated much of Yemen's farmlands.

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The period leading up to the domestication of cereals was one of erratic climate change, as the last ice age ended.

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It won't be a dramatic sudden change but a long, slow, erratic climb out of the freeze.

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Because of the erratic nature of hurricane movement, long-range forecasts often change.

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