{"id":11286,"date":"2015-07-14T20:38:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T10:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11286"},"modified":"2024-07-04T03:50:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:50:43","slug":"global-warming-continues-to-pummel-polar-ice-caps-by-not-causing-them-to-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11286","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Continues To Pummel Polar Ice Caps By Not Causing Them To Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PolarIce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11287\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PolarIce-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"Polar Ice\" width=\"1251\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve written previously, we\u2019ve experienced the calmest Hurricane season in 30 years, the quietest tornado season in 60 years; the creation of 19,000 Manhattan islands worth of sea ice, and (again) the Arctic Ice Cap has grown by 533,000 square miles. In 2007, the BBC warned the cap could vanish by 2013. Oh, and we\u2019re at the most industrialized point in human history\u2013and air quality couldn\u2019t be better, according to the EPA.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2015\/05\/24\/global-warming-continues-to-pummel-polar-ice-caps-by-not-causing-them-to-melt-n2003328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2015\/05\/24\/global-warming-continues-to-pummel-polar-ice-caps-by-not-causing-them-to-melt-n2003328<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve written previously, we\u2019ve experienced the calmest Hurricane season in 30 years, the quietest tornado season in 60 years; the creation of 19,000 Manhattan islands worth of sea ice, and (again) the Arctic Ice Cap has grown by 533,000 square miles. In 2007, the BBC warned the cap could vanish by 2013. Oh, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Global Warming Continues To Pummel Polar Ice Caps By Not Causing Them To 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":[132,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53547,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286\/revisions\/53547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}