{"id":2000,"date":"2015-02-09T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2015-02-09T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T20:55:10","slug":"why-is-climate-so-difficult-to-predict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/02\/why-is-climate-so-difficult-to-predict\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is climate so difficult to predict?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate is a difficult thing to predict because of the number of different factors that have to be taken into account. \u00a0The <em>WhyFiles<\/em> blog has a recent detailed\u00a0<a title=\"What is a climate scientist?\" href=\"https:\/\/whyfiles.org\/2015\/climate-change-who-is-a-climate-scientist\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> which describes some of the things that climate scientists have to think about when making projections of climate in the future. \u00a0This posting includes several paragraphs discussing the links between climate and agriculture. \u00a0(Full disclosure: Dr. Steve Vavrus, one of the scientists quoted in the article, was a classmate of mine in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1280\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1280\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model-300x197.png\" alt=\"Source: NOAA\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model-209x138.png 209w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/640px-Global_Climate_Model.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate is a difficult thing to predict because of the number of different factors that have to be taken into account. \u00a0The WhyFiles blog has a recent detailed\u00a0article which describes some of the things that climate scientists have to think about when making projections of climate in the future. \u00a0This posting includes several paragraphs discussing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","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\/2000","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=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}