{"id":4442,"date":"2015-09-17T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T19:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2015-09-17T15:09:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T19:09:34","slug":"correction-antarctic-ice-extent-is-near-normal-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/correction-antarctic-ice-extent-is-near-normal-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Correction: Antarctic ice extent is near normal this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I published a story stating that the Antarctic ice extent was record-setting for August. \u00a0As I looked back at the post this morning, I realized that I was quoting a story that was two years old, from 2013. \u00a0Today&#8217;s NOAA climate summary shows that the Antarctic ice extent this year is just below the long-term average for August. \u00a0Just shows that you can be fooled by old stories on the Internet if you are not careful enough. \u00a0I have removed the incorrect post from this blog feed.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic below from the NOAA briefing today shows the extent of both the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. \u00a0Note that the two graphs do not use the same scale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/ice-extent-aug-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4443\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/ice-extent-aug-2015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ice extent aug 2015\" width=\"426\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/ice-extent-aug-2015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/ice-extent-aug-2015-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/ice-extent-aug-2015.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I published a story stating that the Antarctic ice extent was record-setting for August. \u00a0As I looked back at the post this morning, I realized that I was quoting a story that was two years old, from 2013. \u00a0Today&#8217;s NOAA climate summary shows that the Antarctic ice extent this year is just below the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","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=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}