{"id":17352,"date":"2019-06-21T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=17352"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:05:09","slug":"greenland-is-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/06\/greenland-is-melting\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Greenland is melting&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have been reading about the recent melting in Greenland, here is a very informative discussion by UGA&#8217;s resident expert, geography professor Dr. Tom Mote. He does field work in Greenland most summers and knows a lot about the dynamics of ice sheets there. You can read it at <em>The Hill<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/energy-environment\/449493-greenland-is-melting?fbclid=IwAR1sUSedut_FrNrfic_YathwZcbTaWf4taycD8ONx2ZzvgAV9yRDEgIwxYY\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10278\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/greenland-sedge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10278\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/greenland-sedge-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/greenland-sedge-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/greenland-sedge-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/greenland-sedge-230x138.jpg 230w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/greenland-sedge.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arctic cotton grass grows on Greenland\u2019s seashore. Sedge is almost four weeks ahead of its timetable 10 years ago. Photograph: Pearl Bucknall\/Alamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have been reading about the recent melting in Greenland, here is a very informative discussion by UGA&#8217;s resident expert, geography professor Dr. Tom Mote. He does field work in Greenland most summers and knows a lot about the dynamics of ice sheets there. You can read it at The Hill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17352","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\/17352","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=17352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17353,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352\/revisions\/17353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}