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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Eileen Shea: they began to think about what they should do to plan for sea level rise.

艾琳·舍：他们开始考虑，对于海平面升高他们应该做些什么。

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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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Coastal managers are using sea-level-rise data to protect crucial infrastructure.

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Scientists have gone ahead and started to map sea-level-rise scenarios in New Jersey, New York City and flood-prone communities along the Gulf of Mexico to help guide local development and planning.

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Hansen suggested that a 10-year doubling time was plausible, pointing out that such a doubling time from a base of 1 mm per year ice sheet contribution to sea level in the decade 2005-2015 would lead to a cumulative 5-metre sea-level rise by 2095.

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