Scientists are finding that the rate of sea-level rise is increasing as well.
科学家们还发现海平面上升的速率同样在加快。
"It does suggest that islands have been able to adapt to sea-level rises," he says.
“这的确显示出岛屿已经能够适应海平面上升，”他说。
The Seychelles could see up to 10 percent more sea-level rise than the global average.
塞舌尔地区的海平面上升要比全球平均水平高了近 10%。
Observed changes in sea-level height in the Indian Ocean during 1961-2008 (Han et al.)
1961-2008 年间印度洋海平面高度变化的观察数据（由Han 等人得出）
There is increasing evidence of continued and accelerating sea-level rises around the world.
越来越多的证据表明全世界海平面在持续及加速上升。
Two studies released this year on patterns of sea-level rise in the Indian Ocean are a case in point.
例如在今年发布的两个关于印度洋海平面上升规律的研究就是这样。
The warming we're on track to do now is more than enough to commit us to last-interglacial levels of sea-level rise.
我们现在所作所为的轨迹，导致的全球暖化，足够把我们带到最后一次间冰期的海平面上升水平。
This will only be exacerbated by the predicted consequences of climate change on water availability, food security, sea-level rise and population distribution.
而气候变化对供水、粮食保障、海平面上升以及人口分布产生的可预测影响只会使这场争夺战愈演愈烈。
strengthening health systems to cope with the health threat posed by climate change, including emergencies related to extreme weather events and sea-level rise.
加强卫生系统，应对气候变化造成的健康威胁，包括与极端天气事件和海平面上升有关的紧急情况。
Lovelock, 90, believes the world's best hope is to invest in adaptation measures, such as building sea defences around the cities that are most vulnerable to sea-level rises.
90岁高龄的拉夫洛克认为，整个世界最大的希望在于加大适应性措施投入，如在易受海平面上升影响的城市建设海堤等。
What the world needs are tsunami-resilient communities that plan ahead not for any particular tsunami but for a medley of coastal hazards, storm floods, sea-level rises, and hurricanes.
世界需要构筑能够抵抗海岸侵蚀、暴雨洪水、海平面上升和飓风等复杂灾害的社区，而不光只专门针对海啸。
The team found that results from the two methods roughly matched and showed that Greenland is losing enough ice to contribute on average 0.46 millimetres per year to global sea-level rise.
该团队发现这两种方法所得到的数据结果大致相符，显示出格林兰冰层减少量导致全球海平线平均每年上升0.46毫米。
In addition to an increase in flooding, sea-level rise could also result in the permanent flooding of low-lying small island states in the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
除了增大发生洪灾的可能性以外，海平面的上升也可能导致加勒比海、印度洋以及太平洋的一些低洼的小岛国永久的被淹没。
Groundwater's contribution to sea-level rise will probably diminish, he added, because as groundwater basins are depleted, there won't be as much water left to send through rain clouds to the oceans.
他补充说，地下水对海平面上升的作用将可能减少，因为随着地下水盆地的枯竭，将不会有多少水通过雨云进入到海洋中。
The sea level is going up because of climate change.
由于气候变化，海平面正在上升。
At 430 meters below sea level, the Dead Sea is Earth's lowest point on land.
死海位于海平面以下430米，是地球陆地上的最低点。
The contribution of the recent model is to show that the winds of an El Nino, which raise sea level in the cast, simultaneously send a signal to the west lowering sea level.
最近的模型的贡献在于，它显示了厄尔尼诺现象的风在使海平面上升的同时，也向西方发出了海平面下降的信号。
The biggest problem to the world is rising sea levels, glaciers are responsible for 21% of sea level rise.
世界上最大的问题是海平面上升，冰川造成了21%的海平面上升。
During high tide sea level is just under the level of the deck giving the impression of walking on water.
在涨潮时海平面恰巧在平台之下，给人以行走在水面上的印象。
He theorized that with the use of watercraft, people gradually colonized unglaciated refuges and areas along the continental shelf exposed by the lower sea level.
他的理论是，随着船只的使用，人们沿着因海平面下降而暴露的大陆架逐渐移居到未冻结成冰的区域。
Mark Serreze, director of the American National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado, thinks that sea level rise is going to be a bigger and bigger problem, as we move through the 21st century.
美国国家冰雪数据中心（NSIDC）位于科罗拉多州，其主任马克·塞雷泽（Mark Serreze）认为，随着我们进入21世纪，海平面上升将成为一个越来越大的问题。
Mark Serreze, director of the American National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado, thinks that sea level rise is going to be a bigger and bigger problem, as we move through the 21st century.
美国国家冰雪数据中心（NSIDC）位于科罗拉多州，其主任马克·塞雷泽（Mark Serreze）认为，随着我们进入21世纪，海平面上升将成为一个越来越大的问题。
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