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。

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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。

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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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"The key finding of this meeting is that we have up to one-meter sea-level rise by 2100, based on our new insight of glaciers.

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"We already know that New Orleans is in the same way, but also areas like Bangladesh or smaller areas of islands that will be flooded within that one-meter sea level rise."

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To be sure, not everyone agrees that climate change will make sea-level rise more pronounced.

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Leaders of small island states, which are on the front lines of sea-level rise, were less enthusiastic.

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Here Hansen repeats his view, first published in 2007 but widely ignored, that a 5-metre sea-level rise is possible.

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