{"id":1808,"date":"2012-11-30T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T10:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2012-11-30T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T10:01:31","slug":"yes-the-world-is-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/yes-the-world-is-melting\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the world IS melting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melting of polar ice sheets has added 11mm to global sea levels over the past two decades, according to the most definitive assessment so far.\u00a0 More than 20 polar research teams combined forces to produce estimates of the state of the ice in Greenland and Antarctica in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/338\/6111\/1183\">a paper in Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/64474000\/gif\/_64474482_ice_sheet_contribution_464.gif?resize=464%2C296\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The study&#8217;s headline conclusion is that the polar ice sheets have overall contributed 11.1mm to sea level rise but with a &#8220;give or take&#8221; uncertainty of 3.8mm &#8211; meaning the contribution could be as little as 7.3mm or as much as 14.9mm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-20543483#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa\">Sea-level rise finally quantified<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melting of polar ice sheets has added 11mm to global sea levels over the past two decades, according to the most definitive assessment so far.\u00a0 More than 20 polar research teams combined forces to produce estimates of the state of the ice in Greenland and Antarctica in a paper in Science. The study&#8217;s headline conclusion &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/yes-the-world-is-melting\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, the world IS melting.<\/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-1808","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-ta","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","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=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}