{"id":2142,"date":"2014-11-27T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2014-11-27T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T22:09:00","slug":"weather-extremes-will-be-the-norm-as-world-warms-truthdig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2142","title":{"rendered":"Weather Extremes Will Be the Norm As World Warms &#8211; Truthdig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/weather_extremes_will_be_the_norm_as_world_warms_20141127\">Weather Extremes Will Be the Norm As World Warms &#8211; Truthdig<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\">As the planet continues to warm, heat waves and other weather extremes that happen perhaps once in hundreds of years\u2014if ever\u2014would become the \u201cnew climate normal\u201d, a World Bank report says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\">The consequences for development would be severe: failing harvests, shifting water resources, rising sea-levels, and millions of people\u2019s livelihoods put at risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\">The World Bank report, the third in its\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #990000; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"World Bank: Turn down the heat : confronting the new climate normal \" href=\"http:\/\/documents.worldbank.org\/curated\/en\/2014\/11\/20404287\/turn-down-heat-confronting-new-climate-normal-vol-2-2-main-report\" target=\"_blank\">Turn Down the Heat series<\/a>, says even very ambitious mitigation action taken today will not stop global average temperatures reaching about 1.5 C above their pre-industrial level by the middle of this century. They are already 0.8 C higher, and likely\u2014on present trends\u2014to reach about 4 C by 2100.<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather Extremes Will Be the Norm As World Warms &#8211; Truthdig. As the planet continues to warm, heat waves and other weather extremes that happen perhaps once in hundreds of years\u2014if ever\u2014would become the \u201cnew climate normal\u201d, a World Bank report says. The consequences for development would be severe: failing harvests, shifting water resources, rising [&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":[113,141,288,369],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-extreme-weather","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}