{"id":23698,"date":"2022-03-07T23:43:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=23698"},"modified":"2022-03-07T23:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:44:01","slug":"for-us-gulf-coast-a-dire-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/03\/for-us-gulf-coast-a-dire-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"For US Gulf Coast, a Dire Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The recently released report on rising sea levels provides ample cause for concern along the Gulf coast. It&#8217;s not just rising sea levels that are causing problems, though. It is also heavier rains from hurricanes, toxic red tides caused in part by drainage of agricultural chemicals off of lands far upstream of the Mississippi delta, and rising heat and humidity levels that cause problems for outdoor workers and nurture exotic species that compete with our native plants and animals. <em>Newser.com<\/em> recently published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/317644\/for-us-gulf-coast-a-dire-warning.html?utm_source=dailyrundown&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=17637819416157043177&amp;utm_campaign=20220303#google_vignette\">short article<\/a> on the negative impacts of climate change on the Gulf Coast with a link to a longer article included that describes some of the changes that are expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/dead-zone-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/dead-zone-2017-1024x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/dead-zone-2017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/dead-zone-2017-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/dead-zone-2017-768x383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/dead-zone-2017-277x138.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Map showing distribution of bottom-water dissolved oxygen from July 28 to August 3, 2015, west of the Mississippi River delta. Black lined areas \u2014 areas in red to deep red \u2014 have very little dissolved oxygen.\nCredit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently released report on rising sea levels provides ample cause for concern along the Gulf coast. It&#8217;s not just rising sea levels that are causing problems, though. It is also heavier rains from hurricanes, toxic red tides caused in part by drainage of agricultural chemicals off of lands far upstream of the Mississippi delta, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23698","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\/23698","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=23698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23699,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698\/revisions\/23699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}