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And one reason is, this enormous heat sink heats up Greenland from the north.
有一個原因，北方沉積的大量熱能加熱了格陵蘭島。
This is an annual melting river. But the volumes are much larger than ever.
這是一條每年融化的河。但流量卻比往年都要大。
This is the Kangerlussuaq River in southwest Greenland.
這是格陵蘭島西南的康克魯斯瓦格河。
If you want to know how sea level rises from land-base ice melting this is where it reaches the sea.
如果你想了解陸地上的冰塊融化如何使得海平面上升，這里就是它的入海口。
These flows are increasing very rapidly.
這里的流量正在急速上升。
At the other end of the planet, Antarctica the largest mass of ice on the planet.
南極，地球的另一端，這個行星上最大的冰塊。
Last month scientists reported the entire continent is now in negative ice balance.
上個月，科學家報告整個大洲正處于冰量減少的階段。
And west Antarctica cropped up on top some under-sea islands, is particularly rapid in its melting.
在南極洲的西部突然發現幾個低于海平面的島嶼正在加速融化。
That's equal to 20 feet of sea level, as is Greenland.
這相當于海平面上20英尺，和格陵蘭島一樣。
In the Himalayas, the third largest mass of ice: at the top you see new lakes, which a few years ago were glaciers.
在世界第三大的冰層，喜馬拉雅山脈，你所看到這些山頂的湖，幾年前是冰河。
40 percent of all the people in the world get half of their drinking water from that melting flow.
全世界有40%的人口都從這溶冰水中獲得日常一半的飲用水。
In the Andes, this glacier is the source of drinking water for this city.
在安地斯山脈，這里的冰河是這個城市飲用水的來源。
The flows have increased. But when they go away, so does much of the drinking water.
這里的水流量已經增加。但當這些水消失時，飲用水也會不見。
In California there has been a 40 percent decline in the Sierra snowpack.
在加州Sierra，積雪場面積已縮小40%。
This is hitting the reservoirs. And the predictions, as you've read, are serious.
這就像是對蓄水池加熱。如你所知，預測結果顯示這樣后果會嚴重。
This drying around the world has lead to a dramatic increase in fires.
如此全球性的干旱將導致火災發生次數戲劇性地增加。
And the disasters around the world have been increasing at an absolutely extraordinary and unprecedented rate.
并且在全球各地所發生的災難也絕對是以非比尋常并且史無前例速率的大量增加。
Four times as many in the last 30 years as in the previous 75.
這將會是近三十年來所發生次數的四倍，是過去七十五年所發生的總量。
This is a completely unsustainable pattern.
這是個令人完全無法承受的景象。
If you look at in the context of history you can see what this is doing.
如果你回頭看看歷史上的過往，你會發現我們正在所經歷的是什么。
