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You can't hold back the tide. Or sea level rise. There's melting ice, of course. But H2O that's already liquid expands as it warms—and the oceans are warming from climate change.
你不能阻擋漲潮，也不能阻擋海平面上升。當然，冰川在不斷融化。液態的水受熱會膨脹。由于氣候變暖，海洋也在膨脹。
That sea level rise isn't the same everywhere. The moon's pull, oceanic currents, the Earth's rotation—these all play a role in what ocean water is where. Turns out the U.S. East Coast is experiencing sea level rise three to four times higher than the global average, according to a study from the U.S. Geological Survey in the journal Nature Climate Change.
在各地，海平面上升的情況并不相同。月球的引力，洋流，地球的自轉，這些都是影響海水分布的因素。事實證明，美國東海岸的海平面正以高出全球平均水平3至4倍的速率上升。美國地質調查局發表在《自然氣候變化》期刊上的一項研究如此報告。
That's bad news for the highly populated region and suggests storm surges are going to prove ever more problematic from New York City to Cape Hatteras.
對于人口密集的地區來說是個壞消息。從紐約市到哈特拉斯角，颶風潮的破壞性會越來越嚴重。
By the end of this century, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could produce sea level rise of as much as 80 centimeters along the East Coast. Further into the future, even a low emissions scenario sees the seas rise by a meter and a half and if we continue emitting at our present pace sea level rise might be close to three meters—and still rising. No matter what some folks choose to believe.
到這個世紀末，大氣中的溫室氣體會導致東海岸的海平面上升80厘米。在更遠的將來，即使只排放少量的溫室氣體，也會造成海平面上漲1.5米。如果人類持續以目前的速率排放溫室氣體，那么海平面上漲幅度可能會接近3米，并會持續上升。不管你信不信，反正海平面會上升。
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