MANILA: Extreme sea level rise as the oceans further heat up and more intense cyclones are threatening coastal communities around the world, including those in the Philippines, said a United Nations report on the impact of climate change on the ocean and the cryosphere.Released last week, the special report by the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned of even more drastic consequences that the world will face due to the unabated warming of the ocean and the rapid thawing of the cryosphere, or the frozen parts of Earth.
While these impacts will be felt globally, the Philippines – an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean with far less adaptive capacity than developed nations – will surely bear the brunt of these extreme events, said Lourdes Tibig, the lone Filipino contributor to the report.
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