{"id":1585,"date":"2014-12-17T07:47:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2014-12-17T07:47:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T12:47:24","slug":"christmas-lights-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/12\/christmas-lights-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas lights from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even \u00a0though this has nothing to do with climate and agriculture, I still find this a fascinating study. \u00a0The <em>Washington Post<\/em> published an article yesterday on a new NASA-based study showing major increases in lighting as viewed from satellites in December compared to other times of year. \u00a0They attribute it to increases in lighting from outdoor holiday light displays. \u00a0The article (<a title=\"Christmas lights from space\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/12\/16\/the-mesmerizing-view-of-christmas-lights-from-space\/?tid=trending_strip_2%20\" target=\"_blank\">link here<\/a>) shows the increases in light output as measured from sensitive satellite cameras in a series of images from cities in various parts of the country. \u00a0I&#8217;ve included the one for the Southeast below. \u00a0The green areas indicate places where the light is brighter in December than other months. \u00a0The biggest changes are in suburban areas outside of the central cities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1586\" style=\"width: 527px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/atlanta-christmas-lights-from-space.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1586\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/atlanta-christmas-lights-from-space-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Source: NASA\" width=\"527\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/atlanta-christmas-lights-from-space-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/atlanta-christmas-lights-from-space-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/atlanta-christmas-lights-from-space.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even \u00a0though this has nothing to do with climate and agriculture, I still find this a fascinating study. \u00a0The Washington Post published an article yesterday on a new NASA-based study showing major increases in lighting as viewed from satellites in December compared to other times of year. \u00a0They attribute it to increases in lighting from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}