{"id":1726,"date":"2012-09-05T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T09:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2012-09-05T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T09:35:23","slug":"arctic-ice-disappearing-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/arctic-ice-disappearing-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic ice disappearing faster &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 million square kilometres and falling.\u00a0 That number doesn&#8217;t mean much, but when you\u00a0 read that ten years ago it was 5.6 million or 40% more you realise that it&#8217;s about to disappear.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At a rate of 1.6 million square kilometres loss a decade it will be gone in 40 years.\u00a0 And it hasn&#8217;t reached its minimum this year yet.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon everyone, we&#8217;ve got to get it together and stop cooking the planet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no good grabbing more stuff and assuming the government or someone else is going to do the job.\u00a0 We all have to change.\u00a0 Now.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Earth Indicator 4 million sq km\" href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/blogs\/earthmatters\/2012\/08\/30\/earth-indicator-4-million\/?src=eoa-blogs\">NASA Earth Observatory: Earth Indicator: 4 million<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arctic_seaice_2012241.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1729\" title=\"arctic_seaice_2012241\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arctic_seaice_2012241.png?resize=468%2C376\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arctic_seaice_2012241.png?w=468&amp;ssl=1 468w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/arctic_seaice_2012241.png?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 million square kilometres and falling.\u00a0 That number doesn&#8217;t mean much, but when you\u00a0 read that ten years ago it was 5.6 million or 40% more you realise that it&#8217;s about to disappear.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At a rate of 1.6 million square kilometres loss a decade it will be gone in 40 years.\u00a0 And it hasn&#8217;t reached &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/arctic-ice-disappearing-faster\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arctic ice disappearing faster &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatechange"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-rQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}