{"id":16617,"date":"2013-05-16T08:23:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T13:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16617"},"modified":"2013-05-16T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T13:23:38","slug":"dark-snow-project-on-the-weather-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/dark-snow-project-on-the-weather-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Snow Project on The Weather Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is a problem, and it seems to be happening faster than scientists had originally thought it might.  This is probably because of soot darkening the snow, which collects solar heat and melts the ice.  Some, perhaps much, of this soot may come from the extensive fires we are experiencing. That increase in fires is probably caused by global warming.  The problem is, we don&#8217;t know enough about the &#8220;Dark Snow&#8221; phenomenon.  There is a group of scientists trying to study this, and they have turned to Crowd Funding to help make this possible.<\/p>\n<p>Here is recent coverage on The Weather Channel.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jw4vROJ6ZEY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darksnowproject.org\/\">Click here to find out more<\/a> and, hopefully, donate a few bucks to help save the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is a problem, and it seems to be happening faster than scientists had originally thought it might. This is probably because of soot darkening the snow, which collects solar heat and melts the ice. Some, perhaps much, of this soot may come from the extensive fires we are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/dark-snow-project-on-the-weather-channel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dark Snow Project on The Weather Channel<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,856,3289,3712],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4k1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}