{"id":1128,"date":"2007-12-23T23:10:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T04:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2007-12-23T23:11:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T04:11:34","slug":"so-much-for-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"So much for winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news is that some scientists now believe the Arctic ice cap could be completely gone by 2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/01\/sports\/arcticweb.php\">link<\/a>). And the tropical disease chikungunya has appeared in Europe for the first time ever (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/23\/world\/europe\/23virus.html?_r=1&#038;ref=world&#038;oref=slogin\">link<\/a>). Seems that in spite of the denials and unscientific pontifications of people like Rush Limbaugh and Georgie Bush, global climate change is real, and it&#8217;s happening all around us.<\/p>\n<p>Today in New Bedford, after some snow and seasonal temperatures, the warm weather returned, with temperatures hitting 52 degrees F (11 C). A heavy rain squall has washed away most of the snow. Predictions are that high temperatures will range between 40 and 50 during the week ahead. All this matches the predictions for global warming in this region: snow during the &#8220;shoulder seasons&#8221; in early December and late spring, while the rest of the winter stays mild.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, it&#8217;s 50 degrees and warm rain is pounding on my skylight. This is not the New England I grew up in. It&#8217;s kind of depressing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dreaming of a wet Christmas<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause global warming&#8217;s put an end to snow&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news is that some scientists now believe the Arctic ice cap could be completely gone by 2013 (link). And the tropical disease chikungunya has appeared in Europe for the first time ever (link). Seems that in spite of the denials and unscientific pontifications of people like Rush Limbaugh and Georgie Bush, global climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter","tag-global-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}