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0Why temperature records are being not only broken but smashed
European farmers are still counting the cost of last year's drought, which saw plummeting yields of crops like maize and corn.
But France today reported it's already short of water, and the European Environment Agency expects this to become a continent-wide problem.
Paradoxically, this will also lead to worse flooding as more water evaporates and then eventually falls back to Earth.
The agency's report also warns there'll be about 60 days each year so hot they're dangerous, and that European healthcare needs to adapt to cope with consequent rises in cardiovascular and respiratory illness.
In the longer term, disease carrying insects like the tiger mosquito will thrive in the warmer climate.
Predictions like this have previously been dismissed as scaremongering, but climate scientists say the changes are actually happening even faster than they expected.
词汇表
smash [smæʃ] vt. 打破，粉碎，刷新（纪录等）
drought [draʊt] n. 干旱，旱灾
plummeting [ˈplʌmɪtɪŋ] adj. 暴跌的，骤降的
yield [jiːld] n. 产量，产出，收成
maize [meɪz] n. 玉米（英式英语，美式常用 corn）
continent-wide [ˈkɒntɪnənt waɪd] adj. 遍及整个大陆的，全洲范围的
paradoxically [ˌpærəˈdɒksɪkli] adv. 自相矛盾地，悖论地
evaporate [ɪˈvæpəreɪt] vt./vi. （使）蒸发，消失
cardiovascular [ˌkɑːdiəʊˈvæskjələ(r)] adj. 心血管的
respiratory [rɪˈspaɪrətri] adj. 呼吸的，呼吸系统的
tiger mosquito 白纹伊蚊，虎蚊（一种可传播疾病的蚊子）
thrive [θraɪv] vi. 茁壮成长，繁荣；大量繁殖
dismiss [dɪsˈmɪs] vt. 驳回，不予理会，驳斥
scaremongering [ˈskeəmʌŋɡərɪŋ] n. 危言耸听，制造恐慌
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