{"id":7912,"date":"2019-08-22T08:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2019-08-22T08:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:29:50","slug":"scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change-scientific-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7912","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change | Scientific American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Because the oceans cover three fifths of the globe, this correction implies that previous estimates of overall global warming have been too low. Moreover it was reported recently that in the one place where it was carefully measured, the underwater melting that is driving disintegration of ice sheets and glaciers is occurring far faster than predicted by theory\u00e2\u20ac\u201das much as two orders of magnitude faster\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthrowing current model projections of sea level rise further in doubt.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change\/?fbclid=IwAR0_-BV9mNDzavoxZnD1oTkMxCcQZQ8QexuVZLMRcgF6GIXONofMR4NIqIs\">Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change | Scientific American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Because the oceans cover three fifths of the globe, this correction implies that previous estimates of overall global warming have been too low. Moreover it was reported recently that in the one place where it was carefully measured, the underwater melting that is driving disintegration of ice sheets and glaciers is occurring far faster than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7913,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions\/7913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}