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天灾与日俱增？“我们可以预期，源自气候改变的异常现象，在未来会导致越来越严重的后果。换句话说，我们必须有心理准备，要面对前所未见的气候危机，以及可能损失更多人命财产。……明智之举是：防患于未然，并装备好自己，随时面对巨变。”──《地球》（GEO）年度综论：自然灾害2003年。2003年夏季，不少欧洲国家都遭受热浪袭击。在比利时、英国、法国、意大利、荷兰、葡萄牙和西班牙，共有差不多3万人间接因高温而死。在孟加拉、印度和巴基斯坦，季候风来临前的一场热浪，夺去了1500人的性命。在澳大利亚，旱灾和破纪录的高温引发山林大火，烧毁了超过300万公顷的林木。世界气象组织说，“在1944年至1996年期间，平均每年只有9.8个风暴形成。但在2003年的飓风季节，大西洋有16个风暴形成，数目远远超过1944-1996年的平均数。其实，自20世纪90年代中期以来，每年的热带气团数目都显著增加，2003年的情况跟这个趋势一致。”这样的情况也一直延续到2004年，一个又一个的飓风横扫加勒比海和墨西哥湾，造成极大破坏，有大约2000人丧生，遭风暴蹂躏的痕迹随处可见。2003年，斯里兰卡被风暴袭击，导致严重泛滥，逾250人死亡。2004年，西太平洋酝酿了至少23个台风，当中10个吹袭日本，多处灾情严重，超过170人死亡。在南亚地区，季候风带来的滂沱大雨引致洪水泛滥，接近3000万人受影响，当中以孟加拉的灾情最为严重。许多人变成无家可归，有差不多300万人被迫放弃家园，超过1300人死去。在2003年，全球也发生了几次强烈的地震。该年5月21日，阿尔及利亚的阿尔及尔遭地震蹂躏，有1万人受伤，20万人痛失家园。同年12月26日早上5时26分，伊朗城市巴姆以南约8公里发生6.5级地震。巴姆百分之70的地方严重受损，4万人死亡，逾10万人家园尽毁。这次地震是2003年最多人死亡的一次天灾。有两千年历史的著名旅游景点巴姆城堡，在地震中变成残垣断壁，使当地失去了一个重要的经济来源。

The text above is composed by a total of 628 characters. 548 of them (87%), highlighted in yellow, belong to the list of 1,000 most commonly used Chinese characters -
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English translation:

Natural Disasters on the Rise? "It is to be feared that extreme events which can be traced to climate change will have increasingly grave consequences in the future. This means that we must reckon with new types of weather risks and greater loss potentials. . . . In accordance with the precautionary principle, we would be well-advised to prepare ourselves for dramatic changes."—"Topics Geo—Annual Review: Natural Catastrophes 2003." PARTS of Europe sweltered during the summer of 2003. The high temperatures contributed to approximately 30,000 deaths in Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. A premonsoon heat wave in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan resulted in 1,500 deaths, while drought and record heat in Australia triggered bushfires that consumed over seven million acres [3 million ha]. According to the World Meteorological Organization, "the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season saw the development of 16 named storms, which is well above the 1944-1996 average of 9.8, but consistent with a marked increase in the annual number of tropical systems since the mid-1990s." The pattern continued in 2004, which saw devastating hurricanes sweep into the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, where they claimed some 2,000 lives and left a trail of destruction. In 2003, Sri Lanka was hit by a cyclone that caused severe flooding, resulting in at least 250 deaths. In 2004, a record of at least 23 typhoons brewed in the western Pacific. Ten of them hit Japan, where they caused extensive damage and took more than 170 lives. Floods resulting from heavy monsoon rains affected nearly 30 million people in South Asia, especially Bangladesh. Millions were made homeless, almost three million were displaced, and more than 1,300 were killed. Several powerful earthquakes struck during 2003. On May 21, in Algiers, Algeria, a quake injured 10,000 people and left 200,000 homeless. At 5:26 a.m. on December 26, the earth quaked five miles [8 km] south of the city of Bam in Iran. The magnitude 6.5 quake devastated 70 percent of the city, claimed 40,000 lives, and left more than 100,000 homeless. It was the most lethal natural disaster of the year. It also turned much of Bam’s 2,000-year-old citadel, Arg-e-Bam, into rubble, robbing the region of an economically important tourist attraction.

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