{"id":12903,"date":"2025-05-27T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=12903"},"modified":"2025-05-26T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T09:00:10","slug":"the-guardian-may-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=12903","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian (May 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research suggests \u201cthat even if carbon emissions are slashed to meet the internationally agreed target of 1.5C, sea level rises will become unmanageable during this century.\u201d The \u201cmore ominous\u201d fact, however, is \u201cthat even the existing 1.5C goal is moving out of reach.\u201d Globally we are on course for \u201cat least 2.5C of heating,\u201d likely melting \u201cthe Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets\u201d and triggering \u201c\u2018really dire\u2019 sea level rise of around 12 metres.\u201d Still, we are not helpless. \u201cPeople will adapt to sea level rises in the future as they have in the past. This is not to deny or underplay the scale of the threat, but to stress the importance of preparing for changes which are now inevitable, as well as trying as hard as possible to avoid the worst-case scenarios.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research suggests \u201cthat even if carbon emissions are slashed to meet the internationally agreed target of 1.5C, sea level rises will become unmanageable during this century.\u201d The \u201cmore ominous\u201d fact, however, is \u201cthat even the existing 1.5C goal is moving out of reach.\u201d Globally we are on course for \u201cat least 2.5C of heating,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12111,16605,16607,11206,864,8554,16258,16603,5829,9159,16602,656,3410,2540,16604,16606],"class_list":["post-12903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-1-5c","tag-12m","tag-2-5c","tag-adapt","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-dire","tag-greenland","tag-ice-sheets","tag-inevitable","tag-ominous","tag-preparing","tag-research","tag-sea-level","tag-threat","tag-unmanageable","tag-west-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12904,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903\/revisions\/12904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}