{"id":4286,"date":"2015-09-03T19:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4286"},"modified":"2015-09-03T19:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:37:36","slug":"new-nature-study-documents-global-increase-in-dry-climates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/new-nature-study-documents-global-increase-in-dry-climates\/","title":{"rendered":"New Nature study documents global increase in dry climates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Nature magazine shows that dry climates across the world have increased.\u00a0 They note that &#8220;<strong>About 5.7% of the global total land area has shifted toward warmer and drier climate types from 1950\u20132010<\/strong>, and significant changes include expansion of arid and high-latitude continental climate zones, shrinkage in polar and midlatitude continental climates\u2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the area of higher latitude climate types has decreased and tropical areas have expanded slightly.\u00a0 The study attributes these changes to the 1 degree F increase in global temperature since 1950, which is due primarily to anthropogenic causes such as the burning of fossil fuel.<\/p>\n<p>You can read an article about this study <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2015\/09\/03\/3697620\/expanding-global-dry-semi-arid-zones\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/AridZoneGrowth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4287\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/AridZoneGrowth-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"AridZoneGrowth\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/AridZoneGrowth-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/AridZoneGrowth-164x138.jpg 164w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/AridZoneGrowth.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Nature magazine shows that dry climates across the world have increased.\u00a0 They note that &#8220;About 5.7% of the global total land area has shifted toward warmer and drier climate types from 1950\u20132010, and significant changes include expansion of arid and high-latitude continental climate zones, shrinkage in polar and midlatitude continental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4286","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\/4286","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=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}