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Why melting ice in Antarctica is making hurricanes worse in Texas

 

*Antarctica 남극 대륙(the Antarctic Continent)
The Atlantic hurricane season is upon us. 

*glacier [ˈɡleɪʃər] 빙하
I am intrigued. 흥미롭네요
I have not had the pleasure.
Well, you are missing out.
It's still the most deadly weather disaster in recorded U.S. history.
There's a ton of uncertainty.
This is it. I mean, this melting glacier in Antarctica, you said, has something to do with hurricanes.
In fact, this exact glacier is making it more difficult to protect people who live in Texas from hurricanes.
*account  기록, 설명, (…의 이유를) 밝히다, 설명하다, (…의) 원인[설명]이 되다(cause)
No tongue can tell it.
*sneeze at …을 깔보다(=consider lightly)
*nothing to sneeze at 가볍게 볼 수 없는, 만만치 않은 
+) These days, three million won is nothing to sneeze at. 
    요즘 같은 시대에 3백만 원은 무시 못할 금액이다
+) It is definitely nothing to sneeze at! 
    그것은 절대 가볍게 볼 수 없는 것이다!
A hundred twenty years is nothing to sneeze at, especially since they didn't understand that human-caused climate change was already in motion when they built it.

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Climate change is causing enormous amounts of ice to melt in West Antarctica. It's a huge driver of sea level rise worldwide.

But the water is rising more quickly in some places than others. Galveston, Texas — thousands of miles away from Antarctica — is experiencing some of the fastest sea level rise in the world.

NPR Climate Correspondent Rebecca Hersher dives into the quest by scientists to understand the mechanics of disintegrating glaciers, often by camping out for weeks on top of ice sheets. And she traces the unexpected connection between that melting ice, and a multi-billion dollar effort to protect Galveston from hurricanes.

 

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