{"id":21518,"date":"2015-09-14T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=21518"},"modified":"2015-09-14T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:15:11","slug":"august-was-a-very-hot-month-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/august-was-a-very-hot-month-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"August was a very hot month, globally."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ds.data.jma.go.jp\/tcc\/tcc\/products\/gwp\/temp\/aug_wld.html\">Japan Meteorological Agency<\/a>, &#8220;The monthly anomaly of the global average surface temperature in August 2015 (i.e. the average of the near-surface air temperature over land and the SST) was +0.45\u00b0C above the 1981-2010 average (+0.79\u00b0C above the 20th century average), and was the warmest since 1891. On a longer time scale, global average surface temperatures have risen at a rate of about 0.65\u00b0C per century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See graphic above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, &#8220;The monthly anomaly of the global average surface temperature in August 2015 (i.e. the average of the near-surface air temperature over land and the SST) was +0.45\u00b0C above the 1981-2010 average (+0.79\u00b0C above the 20th century average), and was the warmest since 1891. On a longer time scale, global &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/august-was-a-very-hot-month-globally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August was a very hot month, globally.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2812,148,856,97,20,2813,2814],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5B4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21518"}],"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=21518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}