{"id":6154,"date":"2016-02-22T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6154"},"modified":"2016-02-22T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:27:16","slug":"how-early-farmers-changed-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/how-early-farmers-changed-the-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"How early farmers changed the climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Farmer published an interesting short article last week about how early agricultural practices changed the local and global climate.\u00a0 Slash and burn techniques caused big changes in land use and injected a lot of carbon into the atmosphere, both as carbon dioxide and as black soot, both of which change the climate in different ways.\u00a0 You might enjoy reading about it <a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2016\/02\/early-farmers-climate-change\/?utm_source=Modern+Farmer+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=5fc5f167ff-Monday_February_22_20162_22_2016&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e8a89c7e43-5fc5f167ff-75518621&amp;mc_cid=5fc5f167ff&amp;mc_eid=cd66672ffe\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6155\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/An_example_of_slash_and_burn_agriculture_practice_Thailand.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6155\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/An_example_of_slash_and_burn_agriculture_practice_Thailand-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: mattmangum, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/An_example_of_slash_and_burn_agriculture_practice_Thailand-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/An_example_of_slash_and_burn_agriculture_practice_Thailand-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/An_example_of_slash_and_burn_agriculture_practice_Thailand.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of slash and burn agriculture in Thailand.\u00a0 Source: mattmangum, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Farmer published an interesting short article last week about how early agricultural practices changed the local and global climate.\u00a0 Slash and burn techniques caused big changes in land use and injected a lot of carbon into the atmosphere, both as carbon dioxide and as black soot, both of which change the climate in different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154","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=6154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}