{"id":8813,"date":"2016-10-23T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2016-10-23T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:05:47","slug":"reporting-on-global-warming-a-study-in-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/reporting-on-global-warming-a-study-in-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reporting on global warming: A study in headlines&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through mail today and found this interesting commentary on interpreting climate records in <em>Physics Today<\/em>. The article discusses how different writers can take the same climate information (in this case, the very warm March 2012 temperature record from Durham\u00a0NC) and write very different headlines based on how they interpret the data. \u00a0All of the interpretations are correct but sound very different in how they address global warming. \u00a0You can read this short article at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/content\/aip\/magazine\/physicstoday\/article\/69\/10\/10.1063\/PT.3.3310\">https:\/\/scitation.aip.org\/content\/aip\/magazine\/physicstoday\/article\/69\/10\/10.1063\/PT.3.3310<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s probably a little more math heavy than most of the articles I post here but should not be a problem for most people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/physics-today-global-warming-headlines-graph.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8814\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/physics-today-global-warming-headlines-graph-300x208.gif\" alt=\"physics-today-global-warming-headlines-graph\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/physics-today-global-warming-headlines-graph-300x208.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/physics-today-global-warming-headlines-graph-199x138.gif 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through mail today and found this interesting commentary on interpreting climate records in Physics Today. The article discusses how different writers can take the same climate information (in this case, the very warm March 2012 temperature record from Durham\u00a0NC) and write very different headlines based on how they interpret the data. \u00a0All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8813","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\/8813","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=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8816,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/8816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}