{"id":36134,"date":"2018-11-01T13:51:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T08:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36134"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T08:21:16","slug":"adrift-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/adrift-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrift at sea\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/adrift-at-sea\/article19281950.ece\">Adrift at sea<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The calving of a trillion-ton iceberg from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica raises the question about the impact of warming atmosphere.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The concern<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the context of rising emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, a cautionary note was sounded, on warming the seas which hastens the melting of the shelves that hold its great mass.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reports says that except for man-made causes, there was no anticipated factor in the natural geological cycle that would disturb Antarctica.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in the case of Larsen C, scientists have said that there was no link to human-induced climate change.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, The separation of an iceberg almost 6,000 sq. km in size from the ice shelf shows the importance of such alarms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Effect<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among the immediate effects of changes could be a shift in biodiversity: species like emperor penguins which depend on sea ice to complete their life cycle are at risk if ice cover declines.<\/li>\n<li>Any negative impact of the latest event will likely be felt years or decades later but it highlights the need to stop continued warming of the planet from man-made carbon emissions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrift at sea\u00a0 Context The calving of a trillion-ton iceberg from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica raises the question about the impact of warming atmosphere. The concern In the context of rising emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, a cautionary note was sounded, on warming the seas which hastens the melting of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/adrift-at-sea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adrift at sea\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704946713},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}