{"id":4046,"date":"2021-07-25T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2021-07-22T07:43:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:43:46","slug":"climate-change-it-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=4046","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change: It is here."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.ac.uk\/media-post\/new-verified-temperature-record-for-antarctic-continent\/\">New verified temperature record for Antarctic continent &#8211; British Antarctic Survey (bas.ac.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see the terrible consequences of changing weather:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-57861067\">China floods: 12 dead in Zhengzhou train and thousands evacuated in Henan &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-57876982\">Europe floods: Victims face massive clean-up as waters recede &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, to read this, is very concering:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has today (1 July 2021) recognised a new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent of 18.3\u00b0 Celsius on 6 February 2020 at the Esperanza station (Argentina). It also rejected an even higher temperature, of 20.75\u00b0C, which was reported on 9 February 2020 at an automated permafrost monitoring station (Brazil) on Seymour Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous record for the Antarctic region (continental, including mainland and surrounding islands] was 17.5\u00b0C (63.5\u00b0F) recorded on 24 March 2015 at Esperanza Research Station. The record for the Antarctic region (all ice\/land south of 60 degrees latitude) is 19.8C, taken on Signy Island in January 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New verified temperature record for Antarctic continent &#8211; British Antarctic Survey (bas.ac.uk) We see the terrible consequences of changing weather:- China floods: 12 dead in Zhengzhou train and thousands evacuated in Henan &#8211; BBC News Europe floods: Victims face massive clean-up as waters recede &#8211; BBC News However, to read this, is very concering:- The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}