{"id":649,"date":"2016-03-28T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/?p=649"},"modified":"2021-01-21T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:49:57","slug":"bad-news-about-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Bad news about the climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-650\" src=\"http:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/map.jpg\" alt=\"map\" width=\"619\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/map.jpg 619w, https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/map-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>February 2016 global surface temperature anomalies. Photograph: NASA GISS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week saw a lot of bad news.<\/p>\n<p>One headline read \u201c<em>Current record-shattering temperatures are shocking even to climate scientists<\/em>\u201d. February 2016 was likely the hottest month in thousands (yes thousands) of years, as we approach the 2\u00b0C danger limit. \u201cStunning,\u201d \u201cwow,\u201d \u201cshocker,\u201d \u201cbombshell,\u201d \u201castronomical,\u201d \u201cinsane,\u201d\u201cunprecedented\u201d\u2013 these are some of the words climate scientists have used to describe the record-shattering global surface temperatures in February 2016. For more on this read th<strong>e <a href=\"http:\/\/derbyclimate.us5.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=73ace8236259de3e09600c686&amp;id=f7d25b334b&amp;e=d9440d2bf7\">Guardian report <\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and the Observer had this follow-up item<strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/derbyclimate.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=73ace8236259de3e09600c686&amp;id=1fbc703821&amp;e=d9440d2bf7\">February was the warmest month in recorded history, climate experts say<\/a><br \/>\nOr for a change, lets look at the reports on February&#8217;s record heat in the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/derbyclimate.us5.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=73ace8236259de3e09600c686&amp;id=0f770364c6&amp;e=d9440d2bf7\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2016 global surface temperature anomalies. Photograph: NASA GISS This week saw a lot of bad news. One headline read \u201cCurrent record-shattering temperatures are shocking even to climate scientists\u201d. February 2016 was likely the hottest month in thousands (yes thousands) of years, as we approach the 2\u00b0C danger limit. \u201cStunning,\u201d \u201cwow,\u201d \u201cshocker,\u201d \u201cbombshell,\u201d \u201castronomical,\u201d \u201cinsane,\u201d\u201cunprecedented\u201d\u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/?p=649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad news about the climate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,82,3,34],"tags":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbyclimate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}