{"id":9874,"date":"2017-01-27T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T20:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9874"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T20:34:42","slug":"how-do-trees-capture-climate-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/01\/how-do-trees-capture-climate-information\/","title":{"rendered":"How do trees capture climate information?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has a new online post which describes how trees are able to capture climate information in their annual growth rings. \u00a0This information, called <em>paleodata<\/em> or <em>proxy data<\/em>, allows us to look back farther in time than using just instrumental records. \u00a0You can use not only living trees but also trees from the past that have been preserved underwater, are incorporated into furniture and buildings, and are hidden under glaciers to build timelines hundreds of years old. \u00a0You can read about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/news\/2540\/tree-rings-provide-snapshots-of-earths-past-climate\/\">https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/news\/2540\/tree-rings-provide-snapshots-of-earths-past-climate\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/tree-rings.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3147\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/tree-rings-300x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/tree-rings-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/tree-rings-227x138.png 227w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/tree-rings.png 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has a new online post which describes how trees are able to capture climate information in their annual growth rings. \u00a0This information, called paleodata or proxy data, allows us to look back farther in time than using just instrumental records. \u00a0You can use not only living trees but also trees from the past that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9874","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\/9874","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=9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9875,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions\/9875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}