{"id":4067,"date":"2015-01-05T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T11:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2015-01-05T07:02:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:02:28","slug":"calls-for-detailed-climate-change-plan-for-torres-strait-islands-amid-projected-sea-level-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4067","title":{"rendered":"Calls for detailed climate change plan for Torres Strait Islands amid projected sea level rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-01-05\/call-for-torres-strait-climate-change-plan\/6000646\" target=\"_blank\">Calls for detailed climate change plan for Torres Strait Islands amid projected sea level rises<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Rising seas around the Torres Strait Islands could leave part of the region uninhabitable within a few decades, a report warns.<\/div>\n<p>The Torres Strait Regional Authority created a climate change strategy to prepare for the possibility that some of the region&#8217;s islands would be inundated by projected sea level rises of between 50 and 100 centimetres over the next century.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Joseph Elu said fresh water supply and housing were also under threat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of our islands are fairly low lying and communities are built on the foreshores,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the predictions that are being made now, they will all be under water in 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But obviously the high tides that are happening this time of year, some of them are being inundated now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for detailed climate change plan for Torres Strait Islands amid projected sea level rises Rising seas around the Torres Strait Islands could leave part of the region uninhabitable within a few decades, a report warns. The Torres Strait Regional Authority created a climate change strategy to prepare for the possibility that some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,141,2198,2423],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-climate-change","tag-sea-level","tag-torres-strait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}