{"id":1956,"date":"2014-11-23T08:46:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2014-11-23T08:46:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T13:46:47","slug":"green-revolution-trebles-human-burden-on-planet-truthdig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet &#8211; Truthdig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/green_revolution_trebles_human_burden_on_planet_20141122\">Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet &#8211; Truthdig<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\">LONDON\u2014Humans are changing not just climate overall, but also the difference between seasons in any given year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\">Researchers in the US believe they now know why global warming has begun to announce itself both in annual rises in temperature and in the seasonal records of carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere\u2014the same seasonal variation in atmospheric chemistry that also contains within it the signature of the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"EurekAlert: 'Green Revolution' changes breathing of the biosphere\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2014-11\/uom-rc111814.php\" target=\"_blank\">Green Revolution<\/a>\u00a0and the 20th-century population explosion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\">And it\u2019s all because the natural\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"EurekAlert: Crops help to drive greater seasonal change in CO2 cycle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2014-11\/bu-cht111714.php\" target=\"_blank\">swing from high carbon dioxide levels to low<\/a>\u00a0each year\u00a0has become more dramatic in the last 50 years.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.25em; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Inexorable pattern<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\">Later in the year, as leaves fall, crops are harvested and consumed, and soil is freshly tilled, most of that CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0gets back into the atmosphere. It\u2019s an inexorable pattern that follows the seasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\">Systematic measurements of CO<sub>2<\/sub>levels began in 1958, and they show that swings within each year from high to low, and back again, have increased in amplitude by 50%, and go on increasing by 0.3% every year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet &#8211; Truthdig. LONDON\u2014Humans are changing not just climate overall, but also the difference between seasons in any given year. Researchers in the US believe they now know why global warming has begun to announce itself both in annual rises in temperature and in the seasonal records of carbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,141,1370,1371],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-agriculture","tag-climate-change","tag-green-revolution","tag-population"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}