{"id":33404,"date":"2021-06-21T20:50:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T01:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33404"},"modified":"2021-06-21T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T01:50:05","slug":"mega-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/21\/mega-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega-Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curious about soil dampness over the centuries? <em><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/em> has a neat presentation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2021\/jun\/17\/tree-rings-america-megadrought-visual?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But here&#8217;s the astounding part: Williams and his team also estimated what drought conditions would look like if human activities had not caused global warming &#8230; and they found that we would still likely be living through a once-in-a-century drought \u2013 but human activity accounts for about 46% of the severity of the current megadrought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tend to see the weather as a massive non-linear system ala Chaos Theory, so I&#8217;m not quite sure I can sit comfortably with that assertion. Still, the last few years in the graph was quite instructive, wasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious about soil dampness over the centuries? The Guardian has a neat presentation here. Money quote: But here&#8217;s the astounding part: Williams and his team also estimated what drought conditions would look like if human activities had not caused global warming &#8230; and they found that we would still likely \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/21\/mega-drought\/\"> 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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33404","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\/33404","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=33404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33405,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404\/revisions\/33405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}