{"id":497098,"date":"2018-07-13T07:36:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T11:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=67cc228852b765d4350090a2c578b6d3"},"modified":"2018-07-13T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T11:36:42","slug":"based-on-a-new-model-researchers-report-alarming-polar-melting-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=497098","title":{"rendered":"Based on a new model, researchers report alarming polar melting phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The melting of glaciers on one side of the globe can trigger disintegration of glaciers on the other side of the globe, as has been presented in a recent paper by a team of AWI scientists, who investigated marine microalgae preserved in glacial deposits and subsequently used their findings to perform climate simulations. The study highlights a process with alarming consequences for modern ice sheets\u2014continuous warming of the ocean can result in a massive loss of polar ice mass, and consequently to rapid sea level rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The melting of glaciers on one side of the globe can trigger disintegration of glaciers on the other side of the globe, as has been presented in a recent paper by a team of AWI scientists, who investigated marine microalgae preserved in glacial deposits and subsequently used their findings to perform climate simulations. The study highlights a process with alarming consequences for modern ice sheets&mdash;continuous warming of the ocean can result in a massive loss of polar ice mass, and consequently to rapid sea level rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497099,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497098\/revisions\/497099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}