Sentences with phrase «ruined by flood»

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«Nobody wants to see a repeat of the carnage caused by last summer's floods, which ruined the lives of thousands of people and cost the economy billions of pounds,» LGA environment board chairman Paul Bettison said.

The fields they depend on are ruined by drought or flood.

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Guides take tours out of kayaks to glide over the crumbling ruins below, lost to flood waters caused by an earthquake almost 2,000 years ago.

Crops in the Black Sea area of Europe, however, have been ruined by bad weather... Chinese production is expected to fall by 10 % as a result of both flooding and droughts.»

By focusing on temperature per se, we conveniently ignore the more important aspects of climate change: floods, droughts, high winds, dust storms, and unseasonable weather that ruins harvests and sets up famines.