{"id":30461,"date":"2018-04-12T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T11:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=30461"},"modified":"2018-04-12T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T11:56:34","slug":"global-warming-is-changing-atlantic-currents-and-will-alter-weather-dramatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/04\/global-warming-is-changing-atlantic-currents-and-will-alter-weather-dramatically\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Is Changing Atlantic Currents And Will Alter Weather Dramatically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>While the fossil fuel industry and it\u2019s minions in government continue to deny climate change and global warming, the evidence is becoming ever clearer that the planet is warming, that climate is changing at an increasingly rapid rate and that emissions of CO2 are a measurable contributing factor.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an\u00a0 science-based report from the Associated Press that will be of interest to all sailors, particular those who sail offshore in the North Atlantic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Global warming is likely slowing the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, which has plunged to its weakest level on record, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The slowdown in the circulation \u2014 a crucial part of Earth\u2019s climate \u2014 had been predicted by computer models, but researchers said they can now observe it. It could make for more extreme weather across the Northern Hemisphere, especially Europe, and could increase sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast, they said.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/fe90ca8e3cd84f07b4780fd8e297d5c1\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the fossil fuel industry and it\u2019s minions in government continue to deny climate change and global warming, the evidence is becoming ever clearer that the planet is warming, that climate is changing at an increasingly rapid rate and that emissions of CO2 are a measurable contributing factor.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an\u00a0 science-based report from the Associated Press that will be of interest to all sailors, particular those who sail offshore in the North Atlantic. &nbsp; WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Global warming is likely slowing the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, which has plunged to its weakest level on record, according to a new study. The slowdown in the circulation \u2014 a crucial part of Earth\u2019s climate \u2014 had been predicted by computer models, but researchers said they can now observe it. It could make for more extreme weather across the Northern Hemisphere, especially Europe, and could increase sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast, they said.\u00a0Read more. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30463,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30461\/revisions\/30463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}