{"id":17083,"date":"2019-04-25T12:26:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=17083"},"modified":"2019-04-25T12:29:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:29:16","slug":"american-meteorological-society-statement-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/04\/american-meteorological-society-statement-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"American Meteorological Society statement on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is the main professional society of atmospheric scientists in the world, with several thousand active members. I have been a member since I started graduate school in 1980, and currently serve on their Board of Certified Consulting Meteorologists. This week the AMS released their latest statement on climate change, which summarizes the current best scientific understanding of what climate change is, how it is measured, and what consequences warmer temperatures have for the earth as a whole. If you want to read a summary of the best information climate scientists can provide on climate change, this is the place to go. You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ametsoc.org\/index.cfm\/ams\/about-ams\/ams-statements\/statements-of-the-ams-in-force\/climate-change1\/?fbclid=IwAR1ZgQxxGicf65Xc1gnJjaNXNqzLiZkGSTuGC2KqQZCUPSSG_kiwFJtMaIs\">here<\/a>. Note that it does not discuss what we should do about it except in the most general terms, because that moves into the realm of policy and not climate science.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-earth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1238\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-earth-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-earth-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-earth-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-earth-138x138.jpg 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-earth.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is the main professional society of atmospheric scientists in the world, with several thousand active members. I have been a member since I started graduate school in 1980, and currently serve on their Board of Certified Consulting Meteorologists. This week the AMS released their latest statement on climate change, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17083","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17085,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17083\/revisions\/17085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}