To be fair, people often make the same mistake but in the other direction, and link every heatwave, major flood, drought and famine to global warming.

公平点来说，人们常常犯同一个错另一方面，又把每一次热浪、大洪水、旱灾、饥荒和全球变暖联系起来。

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But these words do not: flood, drought, hurricane, rising sea levels, bursting levees.

但是洪水、干旱、飓风、海平面上升、堤坝断裂这些词汇却令人惧怕。

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Catastrophes such as fire, flood, drought or epidemic may reduce population sizes to a small fraction of their average level.

火灾，洪水，干旱或流行病可能减少种群数量到他们平均水平的一小部分。

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The farmers are paid back for the inputs if their crops fail because of drought or flood.

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When there is crop failure because of a drought or flood, farmers receive a text message.

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Lakes and reservoirs provide a range of resource values, including drinking water, irrigation water, navigation, fisheries, tourism, recreation, flood and drought management, climate mediation, as well as having religious and historic values.

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Cattle drowned can be crudely counted (140, 000, says one estimate for Argentina's Santa Fe province, stretched along 800km of the Parana), and the loss of crops ruined by flood or drought can be reckoned, but the long-term effects may take years to show up.

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When we reduce hunger in the world, or help a farmer recover from a flood or a drought, it strengthens the entire world economy.

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