{"id":1122,"date":"2017-07-11T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2019-02-08T15:55:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:55:04","slug":"nearly-700-natural-thermometers-demonstrate-the-world-is-warmer-than-its-ever-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/nearly-700-natural-thermometers-demonstrate-the-world-is-warmer-than-its-ever-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 700 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnatural thermometers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 demonstrate the world is warmer than its ever been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planet Earth is warmer than it has been for at least 2,000 years, according to a study that took its temperature from 692 different \u00e2\u20ac\u0153natural thermometers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on every continent and ocean on the planet. In the most comprehensive assessment of how the climate has changed over the period to date, researchers looked at a host of sources of historic information, including tree rings, ice cores, lake and sea sediments, corals, mineral deposits and written records. What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/sdata201788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they found<\/a> confirmed the famous \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hockey stick\u00e2\u20ac\u009d graph, showing an undulating, but broadly flat, line followed by a sharp uptick that begins at around 1900. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/climate-change-natural-thermometers-global-warming-world-temperatures-rising-warmest-ever-hockey-a7837881.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planet Earth is warmer than it has been for at least 2,000 years, according to a study that took its temperature from 692 different \u00e2\u20ac\u0153natural thermometers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on every continent and ocean on the planet. In the most comprehensive assessment of how the climate has changed over the period to date, researchers looked at a host &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/nearly-700-natural-thermometers-demonstrate-the-world-is-warmer-than-its-ever-been\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nearly 700 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnatural thermometers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 demonstrate the world is warmer than its ever been&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}