{"id":176,"date":"2011-08-27T18:54:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T18:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/?p=176"},"modified":"2011-10-03T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:55:08","slug":"whered-the-snow-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/2011\/08\/whered-the-snow-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;d the Snow Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>As early as the 1930s, the person on the street was discussing how \u201cthe weather\u00a0wasn&#8217;t\u00a0what it used to be.\u201d How is your personal experience with the weather congruent or incongruent with what climate scientists are telling us?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Growing up in Massachusetts, I&#8217;ve seen a lot of snow. \u00a0Waking up at 5 in the morning, running downstairs to watch the news to see if school was canceled. \u00a0As I have gotten older though, it seems the\u00a0quantities\u00a0of snow we see each year have dwindled. \u00a0The storms that come to the area are not as severe and the\u00a0quantities\u00a0tend to be less for every storm. \u00a0So, what happened? \u00a0It seems that the scientists are on to something. \u00a0The concept of global climate change is now widely excepted, and from my personal life experiences and observations it the weather isn&#8217;t what it used to be. \u00a0the reduction in the accumulated snow in my home town would seem to be a result of the ocean keeping the air around us warmer. \u00a0The increasing ocean temperatures would increase the ambient air temperatures. \u00a0This would seem to be a factor in the\u00a0noticeably decreased amounts of snow that in being\u00a0received\u00a0in my home town.\u00a0This\u00a0is clearly not the sole reason for the change in weather but it is\u00a0likely\u00a0having an impact on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As early as the 1930s, the person on the street was discussing how \u201cthe weather\u00a0wasn&#8217;t\u00a0what it used to be.\u201d How is your personal experience with the weather congruent or incongruent with what climate scientists are telling us?<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Massachusetts, I&#8217;ve seen a lot of snow. \u00a0Waking up at 5 in the morning, running downstairs to watch the news to see if school was canceled. \u00a0As I have gotten older though, it seems the\u00a0quantities\u00a0of snow we see each year have dwindled. \u00a0The storms that come to the area are not as severe and the\u00a0quantities\u00a0tend to be less for every storm. \u00a0So, what happened? \u00a0It seems that the scientists are on to something. \u00a0The concept of global climate change is now widely excepted, and from my personal life experiences and observations it the weather isn&#8217;t what it used to be. \u00a0the reduction in the accumulated snow in my home town would &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}