{"id":20515,"date":"2020-10-23T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=20515"},"modified":"2020-10-23T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:16:00","slug":"sediment-research-reveals-historic-atlantic-surface-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/10\/sediment-research-reveals-historic-atlantic-surface-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Sediment research reveals historic Atlantic surface temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the latest paleoclimate research published this week, climate scientists have been able to use a new source of proxy data to lengthen the known length of the Atlantic sea surface temperature from 100 years to 2,900 years using lake sediments from Sawtooth Lake in the Canadian High Arctic. The research shows that the last ten years have been the warmest in their entire record. You can read more about how they did their analysis and reconstructed the climate record at Meteorological Technology International at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meteorologicaltechnologyinternational.com\/news\/data\/sediment-research-reveals-historic-atlantic-surface-temperatures.html\">https:\/\/www.meteorologicaltechnologyinternational.com\/news\/data\/sediment-research-reveals-historic-atlantic-surface-temperatures.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/greenland-sedge.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/greenland-sedge.jpg 860w, 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\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><figcaption> 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>In the latest paleoclimate research published this week, climate scientists have been able to use a new source of proxy data to lengthen the known length of the Atlantic sea surface temperature from 100 years to 2,900 years using lake sediments from Sawtooth Lake in the Canadian High Arctic. The research shows that the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":10278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20515","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\/20515","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=20515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20516,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20515\/revisions\/20516"}],"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=20515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}