{"id":4973,"date":"2007-06-06T06:50:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T06:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2007-06-06T06:50:34","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T06:50:34","slug":"oh-hai-global-warming-island-y-u-so-melty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/oh-hai-global-warming-island-y-u-so-melty\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Hai, Global Warming Island. Y U So Melty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a fine place to drink my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/005403.php\">Global Warming Beer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Newsroom\/NewImages\/images.php3?img_id=17664\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"globalwarmingisland.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/globalwarmingisland.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"862\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>Off the coast of Greenland lies an island resembling a bony claw. Long connected to Greenland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coast by ice, the island escaped recognition for what it was for nearly a century. The island might have been discovered when explorers such as Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Philippe, Duke of Orl\u00c3\u00a9ans, mapped Greenland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coast. Instead, this little island was only recognized as such in September 2005, by Dennis Schmitt, an explorer from Berkeley, California. <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Newsroom\/NewImages\/images.php3?img_id=17664\" class=\"external external_icon\">Melting ice enabled Schmitt to detect the island while flying over northwestern Greenland<\/a>.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Newsroom\/NewImages\/images.php3?img_id=17664\" class=\"external external_icon\">earth observatory<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a fine place to drink my Global Warming Beer. Off the coast of Greenland lies an island resembling a bony claw. Long connected to Greenland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coast by ice, the island escaped recognition for what it was for nearly a century. The island might have been discovered when explorers such as Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Philippe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}