{"id":7134,"date":"2016-05-21T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2016-05-21T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T22:04:26","slug":"alaska-last-frontier-on-the-front-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/05\/alaska-last-frontier-on-the-front-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Alaska: Last Frontier on the front lines&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information has a new blog post in the &#8220;<em>Beyond the Data<\/em>&#8221; blog describing some of the problems with describing the climate of Alaska and what they have seen so far. \u00a0Alaska is warming far faster than other parts of the US, and especially faster than the Southeast, which has warmed much less than other areas.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Alaska has averaged 11 degrees above normal. \u00a0As Deke says, &#8220;Eleven degrees. If you want to know how eleven degrees affects living systems, set your thermostat at 83\u00b0F for four months, and see if your metabolism, energy levels, and habits\u2014not to mention your overall comfort level\u2014change.&#8221; \u00a0You can read the blog at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/beyond-data\/alaska-last-frontier-front-lines-climate-change\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/beyond-data\/alaska-last-frontier-front-lines-climate-change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/alaska-jan-apr-graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7135\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/alaska-jan-apr-graph-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"alaska jan-apr graph\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/alaska-jan-apr-graph-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/alaska-jan-apr-graph-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/alaska-jan-apr-graph-261x138.jpg 261w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/05\/alaska-jan-apr-graph.jpg 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information has a new blog post in the &#8220;Beyond the Data&#8221; blog describing some of the problems with describing the climate of Alaska and what they have seen so far. \u00a0Alaska is warming far faster than other parts of the US, and especially faster than the Southeast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7134","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\/7134","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=7134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7136,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions\/7136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}