{"id":2331387,"date":"2024-08-26T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-sos-rising-seas-a-worldwide-catastrophe\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T22:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T02:04:14","slug":"climate-sos-rising-seas-a-worldwide-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-sos-rising-seas-a-worldwide-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate SOS: Rising Seas a &#8216;Worldwide Catastrophe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclimate-sos-rising-seas-a-worldwide-catastrophe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2331387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has \u200bissued a stark warning about the accelerating rise\u200d in\u2062 sea levels, particularly affecting vulnerable\u200d Pacific Island nations. During his visit to Tonga for the Pacific Islands Forum, he emphasized the urgent need \u200bto\u200d address the climate \u200bcrisis, \u200bcoining the phrase &#8220;save our seas&#8221; \u200cas a call \u200cto action. Reports from the UN and the World\u2062 Meteorological Organization have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sununu-announces-new-task-force-to-ramp-up-security-at-border-with-canada\/\" title=\"Sununu forms new task force to boost border security with Canada.\">highlighted alarming data<\/a> on rising \u200bsea levels, exacerbated by global\u200b warming and\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-report-literally-undermines-massive-global-warming-claims\/\" title=\"NYT Report Literally Undermines Massive Global Warming Claims\">melting ice sheets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres noted that regions like Tonga have experienced dramatic increases in sea\u2062 levels\u20148.3 inches from\u200b 1990 to 2020\u2014much higher than the global\u2063 average. This rise poses \u200dgrave risks\u2062 to\u200c Pacific Islands, \u2062where about \u206390% of the population lives near the coast. Additionally, incidents of coastal flooding in places like Guam and the Cook Islands have dramatically \u2062increased over\u200c the decades.<\/p>\n<p>The reports attribute the intensified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secstate-blinken-on-bidens-climate-agenda-americans-that-relied-on-old-industries-will-be-hit-hard\/\" title=\"SecState Blinken On Biden\u2019s Climate Agenda: Americans \u2018That Relied On Old Industries Will Be Hit Hard\u2019\">sea level rise<\/a>\u2063 to factors like melting polar ice and warmer ocean \u2062temperatures. Guterres underscored the dire consequences of\u2064 inaction, warning that this &#8220;crisis is entirely of humanity&#8217;s making&#8221; \u200cand could \u200dbecome a widespread catastrophe without immediate intervention. As the situation\u200b becomes increasingly urgent, a \u200dspecial session of the United Nations General Assembly \u2062is set to convene next month to address\u2062 the rising seas.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Highlighting seas that are rising at an accelerating rate, especially in the far more vulnerable Pacific Island nations, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued yet another climate SOS to the world. This time he said those initials stand for &ldquo;save our seas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization Monday issued reports on worsening sea level rise, turbocharged by a warming Earth and melting ice sheets and glaciers. They highlight how the Southwestern Pacific is not only hurt by the rising oceans, but by other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-heatwave-ripples-across-europe-britain-prepares-for-record-temperatures\/\" title=\"As Heatwave Ripples Across Europe, Britain Prepares for Record Temperatures\">climate change effects<\/a> of ocean acidification and marine heat waves.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres toured Samoa and Tonga and made his climate plea from Tonga&rsquo;s capital on Tuesday at a meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-literal-asian-american-born-pacific-islands-blasts-woke-aapi-nonsense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pacific Islands<\/a> Forum, whose member countries are among those most imperiled by climate change. Next month the United Nations General Assembly holds a special session to discuss rising seas.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a crazy situation,&rdquo; Guterres said. &ldquo;Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity&rsquo;s making. A crisis that will soon swell to an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to safety.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A worldwide catastrophe is putting this Pacific paradise in peril,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The ocean is overflowing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>A report that Guterres&rsquo; office commissioned found that sea level lapping against Tonga&rsquo;s capital Nuku&rsquo;alofa had risen 8.3 inches between 1990 and 2020, twice the global average of 3.9 inches. Apia, Samoa, has seen 1 foot of rising seas, while Suva-B, Fiji has had 11.4 inches.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This puts Pacific Island nations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/police-officer-rescues-students-grave-danger-act-brute-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grave danger<\/a>,&rdquo; Guterres said. About 90 percent of the region&rsquo;s people live within 3 miles of the rising oceans, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1980, coastal flooding in Guam has jumped from twice a year to 22 times a year. It has gone from five times a year to 43 times a year in the Cook Islands. In Pago Pago, American Samoa, coastal flooding went from zero to 102 times a year, according to the WMO State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2023 report.<\/p>\n<p>While the western edges of the Pacific are seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/expert-on-u-n-s-cop26-climate-panic-is-bad-for-people-and-the-planet\/\" title=\"Expert on U.N.\u2019s COP26: Climate Panic Is Bad for People and the Planet\">sea levels rise<\/a> about twice the global average, the central Pacific is closer to the global average, the WMO said.<\/p>\n<p>Sea levels are rising faster in the western tropical Pacific because of where the melting ice from western Antarctica heads, warmer waters and ocean currents, UN officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres said he can see changes since the last time he was in the region in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The alarm is justified,&rdquo; said S. Jeffress Williams, a retired U.S. Geological Survey sea level <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/scientists-quietly-launch-scary-project-block-sunlight-hid-details-fearing-critics-try-stop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scientist<\/a>. He said it is especially bad for the Pacific Islands because most of the islands are at low elevations, so people are more likely to get hurt. Three outside experts said the sea level reports accurately reflect what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific is getting hit hard despite only producing 0.2 percent of heat-trapping gases causing climate change and expanding oceans, the UN said. The largest chunk of the sea rise is from melting ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland. Melting land glaciers add to that, and warmer water also expands based on the laws of physics.<\/p>\n<p>Antarctic and Greenland &ldquo;melting has greatly accelerated over the past three to four decades due to high rate of warming at the poles,&rdquo; Williams, who was not part of the reports, said in an .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musk-scores-big-win-1st-amendment-scares-shadowy-global-alliance-responsible-media-shutting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globally<\/a>, sea level rise has been accelerating, the UN report said, echoing peer-reviewed studies. 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He emphasized that &#8220;SOS&#8221; now stands for &#8220;save our seas.&#8221; On Monday, both the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization released reports detailing the alarming increase in sea levels, exacerbated by global warming and melting ice sheets and glaciers. These reports indicate that not only are Southwestern Pacific nations facing rising oceans, but they are also impacted by other climate change effects such as ocean acidification and marine heat waves. During his visit to Samoa and Tonga, Guterres made his appeal from Tonga\u2019s capital at a meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, where member countries are among those most threatened by climate change. A special session of the United Nations General Assembly is set for next month to address this issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an outrageous situation,&#8221; Guterres stated. &#8220;Rising seas represent a crisis entirely created by humanity\u2014a crisis that will soon escalate to an almost unimaginable scale without any means of retreating to safety.&#8221; He added that &#8220;a global disaster is endangering this Pacific paradise,&#8221; noting that &#8220;the ocean is overflowing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A report commissioned by Guterres&#8217; office revealed that sea levels near Tonga&#8217;s capital Nuku&#8217;alofa rose 8.3 inches from 1990 to 2020\u2014double the global average increase of 3.9 inches during the same period. Apia in Samoa has experienced a foot of sea level rise while Suva-B in Fiji has seen an increase of 11.4 inches. \u201cThis places Pacific Island nations in serious jeopardy,\u201d he remarked, highlighting that approximately 90 percent of people in this region live within three miles of these encroaching waters.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1980, coastal flooding incidents have surged dramatically: Guam has seen flooding occurrences rise from twice yearly to twenty-two times annually; Cook Islands have increased from five times per year to forty-three; and Pago Pago in American Samoa has gone from no flooding events to one hundred two times each year according to WMO&#8217;s State of Climate report for South-West Pacific 2023.<\/p>\n<p>While western parts of the Pacific experience sea level rises nearly double the global average rate due to factors like melting ice from Antarctica combined with warmer waters and ocean currents, central regions align more closely with global averages as reported by WMO officials.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres noted visible changes since his last visit in May 2019: \u201cThe alarm is warranted,\u201d said S. Jeffress Williams, a retired U.S Geological Survey scientist specializing in sea levels who pointed out how low-lying islands make residents particularly vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Despite contributing only about 0.2 percent towards greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change and rising oceans according to UN data\u2014the region faces severe impacts primarily driven by melting ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland along with land glaciers contributing further increases due largely because warmer water expands physically under these conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Globally speaking\u2014sea level rise continues accelerating at its fastest pace observed over three millennia as highlighted within UN findings echoing peer-reviewed studies on this critical issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2331388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/9745d8873af8442584c5e420df36b4df-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[39365,13784,39364,35022,39363],"class_list":["post-2331387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-climate-action","tag-climate-change","tag-environmental-crisis","tag-global-warming","tag-rising-seas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/9745d8873af8442584c5e420df36b4df-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}