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Coastal cities and climate change - You’re going to get wet 2 Coastal cities and climate change You’re going to get wet 海滨城市与气候变化 You’re going to get wet 你们要被淹啦 Americans are building beachfront homes even as the oceans rise 即使海平面上升，美国人仍在海滨建房 Jun 15th 2013 | FORT LAUDERDALE AND NEW YORK |From the print edition BEFORE Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale’s concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida’s coastal highway. A month later another series of violent storms hit south Florida, severely eroding Fort Lauderdale’s beaches and a chunk of A1A. Workers are building a new sea wall, mending the highway and adding a couple of pedestrian bridges. Beach erosion forced Fort Lauderdale to buy sand from an inland mine in central Florida; the mine’s soft, white sand stands out against the darker, grittier native variety. 飓风桑迪在肆虐纽约和新泽西之前，还路过了佛罗里达。滔天巨浪吞没了海滩，横扫了劳德代尔堡的水泥防波堤，冲上了佛州的A1A沿海高速。一个月之后，又有一系列风暴袭击了佛州南部，劳德代尔堡海滩和一段A1A高速都严重受损。工人们修建了新的防波堤，补好了高速公路，还增加了几座人行天桥。由于海滩受到侵蚀，劳德代尔堡不得不从佛州中部的一处内陆砂场购买沙子；相比本地粗糙且更黑的沙子，这种细软的白沙格外醒目。 Hurricanes and storms are nothing new for Florida. But as the oceans warm, hurricanes are growing more intense. To make matters worse, this is happening against a backdrop of sharply rising sea levels, turning what has been a seasonal annoyance into an existential threat. 对佛州来说，飓风和风暴并不稀奇。但随着海洋变暖，飓风变得更加猛烈。更糟糕的是，随之而来的还有海平面的快速上升，一直以来的季节性小麻烦，正在成为事关存亡的大威胁。 For around 2,000 years sea levels remained relatively constant. Between 1880 and 2011, however, they rose by an average of 0.07 inches (1.8mm) a year, and between 1993 and 2011 the average was between 0.11 and 0.13 inches a year. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast that seas could rise by as much as 23 inches by 2100, though since then many scientists have called that forecast conservative. Seas are also expected to warm up, which may make hurricanes and tropical storms more intense. 大约二