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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Although most of the major storms missed the continental United States, curving back out to sea instead, hurricanes and tropical storms did major damage to Haiti, eastern Mexico, and Central America.

虽然大多数大型飓风没有经过美国大陆，而是拐回了海洋，但飓风和热带风暴对海地，东墨西哥和中美地区造成了很大的破坏。

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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.

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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.

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The IPCC Panel's near-consensus was that human activity is having some discernible impact on climate, and that by 2100, a warming earth could result in more frequent storms and droughts, sea level rise of up to three feet, and up to six degrees F. in temperature rise.

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