{"id":40016,"date":"2018-11-01T07:54:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40016"},"modified":"2018-11-01T07:54:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:54:51","slug":"record-high-temperatures-toxic-slime-spreads-across-oceans-as-climate-disruption-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40016","title":{"rendered":"Record High Temperatures: Toxic Slime Spreads Across Oceans as Climate Disruption Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Record High Temperatures: Toxic Slime Spreads Across Oceans as Climate Disruption Continues<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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It is August 30. I\u2019m in Anchorage, Alaska, and it\u2019s hot. Very hot. In fact, it\u2019s the fourth straight day of\u00a0record high temperatures<\/a>, amidst a year that has seen\u00a0record high temperatures becoming normalized<\/a>\u00a0across the entire state.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two days ago, this city (the most populous in Alaska) saw a record high temperature of\u00a078 degrees<\/a>, which beat the previous record by a whopping seven degrees.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last night, I returned here from a trip with the US Geological Survey (USGS), during which we measured the Gulkana Glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range. Almost needless to say, the glacier, like thousands across this northernmost state, is melting rapidly and is in full retreat.<\/em><\/p>\n

I asked one of the USGS researchers studying this glacier to share his feelings about what is happening to the glaciers in his home state of Alaska.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Climate<\/a>\u201cYou see stuff and it\u2019s hard to believe it sometimes,\u201d\u00a0Shad O\u2019Neel<\/a>, a USGS research geophysicist says as we sit talking in a meeting room at the USGS office complex in Anchorage. \u201cThe scale that is happening, like hiking into Gulkana [Glacier], the stream you follow up to it, it branches into two before you get to the glacier.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we talk, we are both cognizant of the fact that it is warming rapidly outside, and the forecast is for more of the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was in grad school, the terminus of the glacier was at that river branch, which is now one kilometer from the terminus,\u201d he says. \u201cLast year I was there, and I realized it wasn\u2019t that long ago I was in school, and now look at how much ice is just gone. It\u2019s a\u00a0lot<\/em>\u00a0of ice.<\/p>\n

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Record High Temperatures: Toxic Slime Spreads Across Oceans as Climate Disruption Continues It is August 30. I\u2019m in Anchorage, Alaska, and it\u2019s hot. Very hot. In fact, it\u2019s the fourth straight day of\u00a0record high temperatures, amidst a year that has seen\u00a0record high temperatures becoming normalized\u00a0across the entire state. Two days ago, this city (the most […]<\/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":[141,10759,6003,6110,12953,22736],"class_list":["post-40016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-disruption","tag-dahr-jamail","tag-global-research","tag-global-temperatures","tag-toxic-slime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40016","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=40016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40017,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40016\/revisions\/40017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}