{"id":1766,"date":"2015-01-15T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2015-01-15T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:20:43","slug":"sea-level-rise-accelerating-faster-than-originally-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/01\/sea-level-rise-accelerating-faster-than-originally-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea level rise accelerating faster than originally thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yahoo News<\/em> published a story this week on new estimates of global sea level rise based on a paper published yesterday in <em>Nature<\/em>.\u00a0 The new research shows that since 1990 sea levels are rising 2.5 times faster than in the time period 1900-1990.\u00a0 This is a concern to people living along coastlines because assuming that sea level will change at the same rate as the historical record will underestimate the rate of flooding and infrastructure damage along the coasts.\u00a0 You can read the Yahoo article <a title=\"Yahoo sea level rise accelerating\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/study-sea-level-rise-accelerating-more-once-thought-181516361.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and the abstract of the Nature article <a title=\"Nature sea level rise accelerating\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature14093.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1767\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/nature-sea-level-rise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1767\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/nature-sea-level-rise.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Nature\" width=\"276\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/nature-sea-level-rise.jpg 197w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/nature-sea-level-rise-136x138.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Nature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News published a story this week on new estimates of global sea level rise based on a paper published yesterday in Nature.\u00a0 The new research shows that since 1990 sea levels are rising 2.5 times faster than in the time period 1900-1990.\u00a0 This is a concern to people living along coastlines because assuming that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}