{"id":8748,"date":"2023-11-26T08:42:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T07:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8748"},"modified":"2023-11-26T08:42:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T07:42:20","slug":"act-immediately-says-un-chief-on-visit-to-frozen-but-rapidly-melting-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/26\/act-immediately-says-un-chief-on-visit-to-frozen-but-rapidly-melting-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Act now,&quot; says UN chief on visit to frozen but rapidly melting Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>Ahead of the COP28 conference in Dubai, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that while the frozen but rapidly melting Antarctica has been called a sleeping giant, the continent is now waking up to the adverse effects of climate change. <\/span><span>The UN chief is on a three-day official visit to Antarctica, which regulates the planet&#039;s climate because its ice and cold waters drive large ocean currents. Chilean President Gabriel Boric joined him on an official visit to Chile&#039;s Eduardo Frei Air Force Base on King George Island. He was also supposed to visit the Collins and Nelson glaciers on the ship.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>&quot;Fossil fuel pollution is warming our planet and unleashing climate anarchy in Antarctica,&quot; Guterres said, adding that the Southern Ocean absorbed most of the heat from global warming. <\/span><span>&quot;This means that the ice is melting in the ocean at a record speed. Melting ice means sea levels are rising at a record pace,&quot; he explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the COP28 conference in Dubai, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that while the frozen but rapidly melting Antarctica has been called a sleeping giant, the continent is now waking up to the adverse effects of climate change. The UN chief is on a three-day official visit to Antarctica, which regulates the planet&#039;s climate because its ice and cold waters drive major ocean currents. The Chilean [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}