Sea levels would rise, with the impact intensified by those storms: coastal flooding, already a major source of natural disasters, would become much more frequent and severe.

海平面会上升，而这些风暴会强化其效应：海水泛滥本来就是一种主要的自然灾害，将会变得更加频繁而剧烈。

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With 80 percent of the country less than 3.3 feet above sea level, rising ocean levels and a potential increase in the intensity of tropical storms pose a serious threat.

这个国家80%仅超过海平面少于3.3英尺，正在提升的海平面以及强烈的热带风暴的增加严重威胁着这个国家。

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Microscopic plants less than half a centimeter across may be able to change the paths of 300-mile-wide tropical storms, due to their ability to change the color of the surface of the sea.

直径小于半厘米的浮游植物有能力改变300米宽的热带风暴，因为它们能够改变海水表面的颜色。

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Each experiment was modeled on real-life disasters, such as the 1979 Fastnet race in which storms in the Irish Sea capsized many of the competing yachts, resulting in 15 deaths.

CNN: November 21, 2012 -- Updated 1203 GMT (2003 HKT)

U.N. scientific experts say a warmer world is likely to spread disease in tropical regions, cause sea levels to rise and increase the rate of severe storms.

CNN: Global warming may 'double heat deaths'

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The remnants of violent storms that killed more than a dozen people in Oklahoma moved out to sea with a whimper Monday, but not before sending punishing winds and torrential downpours to New England and spawning a tornado in South Carolina.

NPR: Out With A Whimper: Storms Over In East, South