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After nearly eight years, California emerged from its longest drought of the millennium just before the start of fire season.
近八年后，加州在火季开始之前遭遇了一千年最长的干旱。
Experts say higher temperatures from climate change make for dryer vegetation, which provides ready fuel for wildfires.
专家称气候变化引发的高温让植被干燥，这为大火提供了现场燃料。
This is just one example of how a warming planet will affect public health in the future,
这只是温暖地球影响未来公众健康的一个例子，
says Dr. Nick Watts, Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown. If we continue down sort of the current trajectory,
这是《柳叶刀倒计时》执行主任尼克·瓦茨博士所说，如果我们继续现在的发展趋势，
it comes close to wiping out the last 50 years of gains that we have seen in public health around the world.
我们就离消灭过去50年在全球公众健康方面获得的成果不远了。
An international report by The Lancet Countdown says a baby born today is likely to see the Earth warm four-degrees by his or her 71st birthday.
根据《柳叶刀倒计时》发布的国际报告显示，今天出生的婴儿在他71岁时地球的温度会增温四度。
In terms of the health impact of climate change this is anything from,
关于气候变化对健康的影响，
the spread of vector-borne disease like Dengue, like malaria, the spread of Vibrio,
媒介生物疾病的传播，比如登革热，疟疾，弧菌属，
and that particularly again, it's children under the age of five that are the most vulnerable.
特别要再次强调的，五岁以下儿童最易受到伤害。
Watts says, as climates warm, unwelcome disease vectors will thrive, like the Asian tiger mosquito.
瓦茨认为随着气候变暖，不受欢迎的疾病介体将滋长，比如亚洲虎蚊。
It's moving up from Turkey, coming across Europe, that tiger mosquito carries Dengue fever.
亚洲虎蚊从土耳其开始，遍及欧洲，这种蚊虫携带登革热。
It carries chikungunya when it's there. It carries yellow fever. If you're in South America, that tiger mosquito can carry Zika virus as well.
当它们到达这里时，会携带基孔肯雅病毒，携带黄热病，如果你在南美洲，它还可以携带寨卡病毒。
Scientists are most concerned about the overall, longterm impact of global warming on public health.
科学家最担心的是，气候变暖对公众卫生的长期，总体影响。
We're not worried about just heatwave and what that does to heart disease or kidney disease.
我们不仅仅担心热浪，以及它对心脏病或肾病带来的影响。
We're not worried about just malnutrition. We're worried about what happens to a community
我们不仅仅担心营养不良，我们担心的是社区发生的事情，
to a population to a child born today when they are hit again and again and again from multiple different angles
对人口，对今天出生的婴儿，尤其是当他们受到不同角度的重复撞击后，
and how that has a lifelong impact the whole way through.
以及一路走来对他们产生的一生的影响。
Researchers say it will take political will to avert dire outcomes.
研究人员称需要政治意愿来躲避可怕结果。
The authors are calling for next month's United Nations Climate Conference to focus on the health impacts of a warming planet.
报告作者呼吁下个月的联合国气候大会可以关注变暖问题对健康的影响。
Arash Arabasadi, VOA news Washington
阿拉什·阿坝沙迪，VOA新闻华盛顿报道
