{"id":4100,"date":"2010-08-21T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T22:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2010-08-21T18:18:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T22:18:45","slug":"why-yes-that-was-hotter-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/08\/21\/why-yes-that-was-hotter-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Yes, That *Was* Hotter Than Ever . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/cif-green\/2010\/aug\/18\/extreme-weather-climate-debate\">points to something<\/a> that everyone living in the DC area (and probably entire Eastern Seaboard) already suspected was the case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now scientists have confirmed what&#8217;s been pretty obvious: the entire world has just come through the warmest six months, the warmest year, and the warmest decade on record. Following\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"the hottest June ever\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2010\/jul\/16\/june-2010-warmest-recorded\">the hottest June ever<\/a>,<a title=\"AccuWeather.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\">AccuWeather.com<\/a> yesterday said July was the second hottest July recorded \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the warmest ever for land temperatures alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And with that comes consequences:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just in case those feel like abstractions, here&#8217;s what they mean in practice:\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"since warmer air holds more water vapor than cold, deluge increases\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/aug\/09\/climate-change-flooding\">because warmer air holds more water vapour than cold, deluge increases<\/a>. Hence,\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Pakistan has seen the worst flooding in its history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/gallery\/2010\/aug\/13\/pakistan-flooding\">Pakistan has seen the worst flooding in its history<\/a>. Because heat cuts grain yields,\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Russia has stopped exporting grain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/aug\/05\/vladimir-putin-ban-grain-exports\">Russia has stopped exporting grain<\/a>, spiking prices. Greenland? Guess what \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"heat melts ice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/gallery\/2010\/aug\/11\/greenland-petermann-glacier\">heat melts ice<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But hey, just regular weather cycles, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian points to something that everyone living in the DC area (and probably entire Eastern Seaboard) already suspected was the case: Now scientists have confirmed what&#8217;s been pretty obvious: the entire world has just come through the warmest six months, the warmest year, and the warmest decade on record. Following\u00c2\u00a0the hottest June ever,AccuWeather.com yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}