1·Just turn on the news and you can hear about hurricanes, earthquakes, and more happenings in our world every day.
只要打开新闻，你每天都可以听到关于飓风、地震的新闻，还有世上发生的其他事情。
2·Remember how, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Al Gore claimed that we were in store for ever more destructive hurricanes?
还记得2005年卡特里娜飓风过后，阿尔·戈尔是如何宣称我们正准备迎接比以往更具破坏性的飓风的吗？
3·Massive floods, long droughts, hurricanes and severe monsoons take their toll each year, destroying millions of tons of valuable crops.
大规模的洪水、长期的干旱、飓风和严重的季风每年都会造成损失，摧毁数百万吨有价值的农作物。
4·One of the most powerful of all weather systems, hurricanes are powered by the heat energy released by the condensation of water vapour.
作为所有天气系统中最强大的系统之一，飓风是由水蒸气凝结释放的热能所驱动的。
5·In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States.
仅2018年这一年，山火、火山爆发、飓风、泥石流和其他自然灾害就给美国造成了至少490亿美元的损失。