{"id":22824,"date":"2018-04-03T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22824"},"modified":"2018-04-03T14:05:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:05:59","slug":"antarctic-melting-underneath-much-faster-than-we-though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22824","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic melting underneath much faster than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the news in the media is about specific events involving specific people, but often what&#8217;s going on underneath &#8211; sometimes literally &#8211; these headlines is a more significant story. An example is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/apr\/02\/underwater-melting-of-antarctic-ice-far-greater-than-thought-study-finds\">this &#8220;Guardian&#8221; news item<\/a>\u00a0which begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hidden underwater melt-off in the Antarctic is doubling every 20 years and could soon overtake Greenland to become the biggest source of sea-level rise, according to the first complete underwater map of the world\u2019s largest body of ice.<\/p>\n<p>Warming waters have caused the base of ice near the ocean floor around the south pole to shrink by 1,463 square kilometres \u2013 an area the size of Greater London \u2013 between 2010 and 2016, according to <a class=\"u-underline\" draggable=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/s41561-018-0082-z\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the new study published in Nature Geoscience<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the news in the media is about specific events involving specific people, but often what&#8217;s going on underneath &#8211; sometimes literally &#8211; these headlines is a more significant story. An example is this &#8220;Guardian&#8221; news item\u00a0which begins: &#8220;Hidden underwater melt-off in the Antarctic is doubling every 20 years and could soon overtake Greenland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22829,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22824\/revisions\/22829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}