{"id":1728,"date":"2003-09-23T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2003-09-23T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T19:01:00","slug":"shaka-bye-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/09\/23\/15\/01\/shaka-bye-bye\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaka Bye Bye"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a very bad thing<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up … Only 100 years ago the whole northern coast of Ellesmere Island, which is the northernmost land mass of North America, was edged by a continuous ice shelf. About 90 percent of it is now gone.<\/p>\n

The warmest air temperatures in four centuries, a shrinking sea-ice cover, a record amount of melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet, Alaskan glaciers retreating at unprecedented rates. Add to this the increasing discharge from Russian rivers, an Arctic growing season that has lengthened by several days per decade, and permafrost that has started to thaw. Taken together, these observations announce in a way no single measurement could that the Arctic is undergoing a profound transformation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a>Earlier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a very bad thing. The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up … Only 100 years ago the whole northern coast of Ellesmere Island,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t