{"id":28931,"date":"2020-06-06T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28931"},"modified":"2020-06-06T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T13:44:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/06\/06\/word-of-the-day-568\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Zombie fires<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is strong evidence that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2208610-unprecedented-arctic-megafires-are-releasing-a-huge-amount-of-co2\/\">last summer\u2019s unprecedented Arctic blazes<\/a>\u00a0appear to have smouldered through winter as\u00a0\u201czombie fires\u201d and reignited this month.<\/p>\n<p>Intense blazes across the frozen north\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2211013-huge-arctic-fires-have-now-emitted-a-record-breaking-amount-of-co2\/\">last year led to record carbon emissions that were on a par with those from Belgium<\/a>, exacerbating the global warming that made the conditions for the fires possible in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Now as temperatures rise in the region and snow recedes, satellite analysis of last year\u2019s burn sites and the fires erupting this month suggest many in Siberia may be zombie fires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know they are real and quite rare. That\u2019s why seeing so many potential spots in Siberia is interesting. The satellite images are astonishing, particularly the snowmelt immediately followed by the fires appearing,\u201d says Thomas Smith at the London School of Economics.<em> [&#8220;&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2243591-zombie-fires-are-burning-the-arctic-after-smouldering-under-snow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zombie&#8217; fires are burning the Arctic after smouldering under snow,<\/a>&#8221; Adam Vaughan, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (23 May 2020, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zombie fires: There is strong evidence that\u00a0last summer\u2019s unprecedented Arctic blazes\u00a0appear to have smouldered through winter as\u00a0\u201czombie fires\u201d and reignited this month. Intense blazes across the frozen north\u00a0last year led to record carbon emissions that were on a par with those from Belgium, exacerbating the global warming that made the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/06\/06\/word-of-the-day-568\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28932,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28931\/revisions\/28932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}