{"id":26285,"date":"2009-04-05T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T21:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/05\/antarctic-ice-shelf-collapsing\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T21:09:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T21:09:19","slug":"antarctic-ice-shelf-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/antarctic-ice-shelf-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapsing Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An ice bridge holding a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place has shattered and may herald a wider collapse caused by global warming, a scientist said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing how the ice has ruptured,&#8221; said David Vaughan, a glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey. &#8220;Two days ago it was intact,&#8221; he said, referring to a satellite image of the Wilkins ice shelf.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite picture, by the European Space Agency, showed that a strip of ice about 25 miles long that is believed to pin the ice shelf in place had snapped. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/05\/science\/earth\/05antarctica.html\">details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ice bridge holding a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place has shattered and may herald a wider collapse caused by global warming, a scientist said Saturday. &#8220;It&#8217;s amazing how the ice has ruptured,&#8221; said David Vaughan, a glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey. &#8220;Two days ago it was intact,&#8221; he said, referring to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/antarctic-ice-shelf-collapsing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapsing Again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6PX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26285"}],"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=26285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}