{"id":1810,"date":"2012-09-06T20:48:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2012-09-06T21:28:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T21:28:26","slug":"floods-has-the-weather-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/2012\/09\/06\/floods-has-the-weather-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods! Has the weather gone wild?"},"content":{"rendered":" $\"\"$ <\/a>\r\n\r\n\u201cRains that are almost biblical, heat waves that don\u2019t end, tornadoes that strike in savage swarms\u2014there\u2019s been a change in the weather lately. What\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/em> Peter Miller, National Geographic.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThere\u2019s been a change in the weather. \u201cExtreme events like the Nashville flood<\/a>\u2014described by officials as a once-in-a-millennium occurrence\u2014are happening more frequently than they used to. A month before Nashville, torrential downpours dumped 11 inches of rain on Rio de Janeiro<\/a> in 24 hours, triggering mudslides that buried hundreds. About three months after Nashville, record rains in Pakistan<\/a> caused flooding that affected more than 20 million people. In late 2011 floods in Thailand<\/a> submerged hundreds of factories near Bangkok, creating a worldwide shortage of computer hard drives. Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u201cRains that are almost biblical, heat waves that don\u2019t end, tornadoes that strike in savage swarms\u2014there\u2019s been a change in the weather lately. What\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/em> Peter Miller, National Geographic.<\/strong><\/p>\n
There\u2019s been a change in the weather. \u201cExtreme events like the Nashville flood<\/a>\u2014described by officials as a once-in-a-millennium occurrence\u2014are happening more frequently than they used to. A month before Nashville, torrential downpours dumped 11 inches of rain on Rio de Janeiro<\/a> in 24 hours, triggering mudslides that buried hundreds. About three months after Nashville, record rains in Pakistan<\/a> caused flooding that affected more than 20 million people. In late 2011 floods in Thailand<\/a> submerged hundreds of factories near Bangkok, creating a worldwide shortage of computer hard drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[162,170],"tags":[440,442,441,422,648,438,434,439,436,437,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}