{"id":719231,"date":"2022-03-14T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T21:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=719231"},"modified":"2022-03-14T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T21:17:55","slug":"fast-melting-alpine-permafrost-may-contribute-to-rising-global-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=719231","title":{"rendered":"Fast-melting alpine permafrost may contribute to rising global temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the ancient sludge of lakebeds in Asia&#8217;s Tibetan Plateau, scientists can decipher a vision of Earth&#8217;s future. That future, it turns out, will look very similar to the mid-Pliocene warm period\u2014an epoch 3.3 million to 3 million years ago when the average air temperature at mid-latitudes rarely dropped below freezing. It was a time when permanent ice was just beginning to cling to the northern polar regions, and mid-latitude alpine permafrost\u2014or perpetually frozen soil\u2014was much more limited than today.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-03-fast-melting-alpine-permafrost-contribute-global.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fast-melting alpine permafrost may contribute to rising global temperatures<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the ancient sludge of lakebeds in Asia&#8217;s Tibetan Plateau, scientists can decipher a vision of Earth&#8217;s future. That future, it turns out, will look very similar to the mid-Pliocene&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719231","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719231\/revisions"}],"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=719231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}