{"id":1256,"date":"2012-07-26T15:31:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2012-07-26T15:31:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:31:42","slug":"sudden-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/26\/sudden-melt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA: Strange and sudden massive melt in Greenland<br \/>\nThe abnormally warm weather is causing meltdowns even in Greenland&#8217;s highest and coldest places<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/25\/nasa_strange_and_sudden_massive_melt_in_greenland\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/25\/nasa_strange_and_sudden_massive_melt_in_greenland\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read this yesterday but wasn&#8217;t motivated to post at the time.  To me this is just a natural variation in weather and climate and essentially meaningless in the global scale.  Since I am a global warming <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/page\/2\/?s=%22global+warming%22\">skeptic<\/a> (well, I _am_ skeptical that we need to destroy our society in order to &#8216;save&#8217; it from human influenced global warming) naturally I more or less ignored the hysterical elements of the article and was just interested in the science.  <\/p>\n<p>Today I find this rather interesting, amazingly non-hysterical article on Fox:<\/p>\n<p>Skeptics put the freeze on NASA &#8216;hot air&#8217; about Greenland ice<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2012\/07\/26\/skeptics-put-freeze-on-nasa-hot-air-about-greenland-ice\/\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2012\/07\/26\/skeptics-put-freeze-on-nasa-hot-air-about-greenland-ice\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The title is the most hysterical part of the article; it seems well written to me (I guess, just like the WSJ, occasionally, likely by accident, something gets written and published that isn&#8217;t horribly slanted or outright lies).  It was this second article that motivated me to post.  Just like I got interested when I saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/09\/epigenetics-and-global-warming\/\">epigenetic adaptation of fish to higher temps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA: Strange and sudden massive melt in Greenland The abnormally warm weather is causing meltdowns even in Greenland&#8217;s highest and coldest places http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/25\/nasa_strange_and_sudden_massive_melt_in_greenland\/ I read this yesterday but wasn&#8217;t motivated to post at the time. To me this is just a natural variation in weather and climate and essentially meaningless in the global scale. Since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/26\/sudden-melt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sudden melt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}