{"id":35034,"date":"2021-08-10T02:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/ipcc-report-shows-possible-loss-of-entire-countries-within-the-century"},"modified":"2021-08-10T02:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:30:05","slug":"ipcc-report-shows-possible-loss-of-entire-countries-within-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35034","title":{"rendered":"IPCC report shows \u2018possible loss of entire countries within the century\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific island nations are already being battered by king tides, catastrophic cyclones and sustained droughts<\/p>\n<p>Global heating above 1.5C will be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for Pacific island nations and could lead to the loss of entire countries due to sea level rise within the century, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/southpacific\">The Pacific <\/a>has long been seen as the \u201ccanary in the coalmine\u201d for the climate crisis, as the region has suffered from king tides, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/10\/covid-closed-our-borders-to-international-help-after-a-cyclone-but-showed-us-locals-are-the-best-first-responders\">catastrophic cyclones<\/a>, increasing salinity in water tables making growing crops impossible, sustained droughts, and the loss of low-lying islands to sea level rise. These crises are expected to increase in frequency and severity as the world heats.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/ipcc-report-shows-possible-loss-of-entire-countries-within-the-century\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific island nations are already being battered by king tides, catastrophic cyclones and sustained droughtsGlobal heating above 1.5C will be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for Pacific island nations and could lead to the loss of entire countries due to sea level ris&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,326,65,436,761,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-fiji","category-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-ipcc","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35034\/revisions\/35035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}