{"id":6089,"date":"2016-02-14T19:20:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T00:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6089"},"modified":"2016-02-14T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T00:20:36","slug":"why-two-degrees-of-warming-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/why-two-degrees-of-warming-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why two degrees of warming is important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When scientists talk about a climate that is getting warmer, they often talk about 2 degrees of change as being enough to cause irreversible changes in the earth&#8217;s climate system. \u00a0But what makes &#8220;2 degrees&#8221; important? \u00a0It&#8217;s true that a 2 degree change in daily temperature is barely noticeable in the day to day variability of weather. \u00a0However, 2 degrees in the climate record is a much bigger deal because while weather variations tend to cancel out over the long haul, a trend towards warmer temperatures every day can bring extremes that are harder to deal with. \u00a0This essay by Dr. Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University explains <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/guest-commentary\/why-two-degrees-is-so-important-fossil-fuel-companies-can-no-longer-ignore-the-need-to-act\" target=\"_blank\">why<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3907\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3907\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Dave Bloom \/ Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/Breydon_Water_Autumn_Sunset._-_geograph.org_.uk_-_467120.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Dave Bloom \/ Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When scientists talk about a climate that is getting warmer, they often talk about 2 degrees of change as being enough to cause irreversible changes in the earth&#8217;s climate system. \u00a0But what makes &#8220;2 degrees&#8221; important? \u00a0It&#8217;s true that a 2 degree change in daily temperature is barely noticeable in the day to day variability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6089","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\/6089","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=6089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6090,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089\/revisions\/6090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}