{"id":9528,"date":"2016-12-19T23:20:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9528"},"modified":"2016-12-19T23:20:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T04:20:18","slug":"why-the-north-pole-is-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/12\/why-the-north-pole-is-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the North Pole is cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many younger folks are thinking about the North Pole this week in a non-scientific way, Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA takes an analytical approach to the topic, discussing why the North Pole is cold in his latest <em>Forbes<\/em> blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/12\/19\/the-science-of-why-the-north-pole-is-cold\/#537ae5bf44e4\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The article also looks at differences between the North and South Pole and why changes in sea ice in one hemisphere do not necessarily correspond with changes in the other hemisphere.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1176\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/nasa-sea-ice-sept-2014-14-261.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1176\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/nasa-sea-ice-sept-2014-14-261-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/nasa-sea-ice-sept-2014-14-261-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/nasa-sea-ice-sept-2014-14-261-232x138.jpg 232w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/nasa-sea-ice-sept-2014-14-261.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">September 2014 sea ice extent. Source: NASA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many younger folks are thinking about the North Pole this week in a non-scientific way, Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA takes an analytical approach to the topic, discussing why the North Pole is cold in his latest Forbes blog post here. \u00a0The article also looks at differences between the North and South Pole and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9528","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\/9528","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=9528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9529,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions\/9529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}