{"id":10929,"date":"2020-09-06T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10929"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T22:56:06","slug":"tundra-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/06\/tundra-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Tundra Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/zombie-wildfires-burn-arctic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from LIVE SCIENCE<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zombie wildfires are blazing through the Arctic, causing record burning<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/author\/stephanie-pappas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stephanie Pappas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arctic wildfires are &#039;only going to get worse&#039;\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TGCAPruiZag?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Zombie&#8221; wildfires that were smoldering beneath the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/arctic-circle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arctic<\/a>\u00a0ice all winter suddenly flared to life this summer when the snow and ice above it melted, new monitoring data reveals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this year has been the worst for Arctic wildfires on record, since reliable monitoring began 17 years ago. Arctic fires this summer released as much&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/28698-facts-about-carbon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carbon<\/a>&nbsp;in the first half of July than a nation the size of Cuba or Tunisia does in a year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s according to monitoring by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/atmosphere.copernicus.eu\/copernicus-tracks-effects-arctic-circle-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service<\/u><\/a>, the European Union&#8217;s Earth-monitoring organization. More than 100 fires have burned across the Arctic since early June, according to Copernicus. &#8220;Obviously it&#8217;s concerning,&#8221; Copernicus senior scientist Mark Parrington told the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-54013966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>BBC<\/u><\/a>. &#8220;We really hadn&#8217;t expected to see these levels of wildfires yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/zombie-wildfires-burn-arctic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at LIVE SCIENCE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from LIVE SCIENCE Zombie wildfires are blazing through the Arctic, causing record burning By\u00a0Stephanie Pappas &#8220;Zombie&#8221; wildfires that were smoldering beneath the\u00a0Arctic\u00a0ice all winter suddenly flared to life this summer when the snow and ice above it melted, new monitoring data reveals. And this year has been the worst for Arctic wildfires on record, since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}