{"id":6326,"date":"2014-06-19T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2014-06-19T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:00:32","slug":"stories-in-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/science\/stories-in-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories in the Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/27845\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/myucsd.tv\/files\/2014\/06\/27845.jpg\" alt=\"27845\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3813\" \/><\/a>Much like the rings of a tree can tell us about its particular history, air bubbles trapped within large bodies of ice reveal secrets about our past climate and atmospheric composition.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists can extract a wealth of information by drilling thousands of meters down into earth&#8217;s massive continental ice sheets and extracting ice cores. By examining the cores, they can go back in time to periods much colder and considerably warmer than today.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Severinghaus from Scripps Institution of Oceanography describes how he delves into earth&#8217;s climate past and what he&#8217;s learned. &#8220;Humans have changed the atmosphere due to burning fossil fuels and you see that very clearly in the ice core records,&#8221; he explains. While we may not see dramatic climate changes during our lifetimes, our grandchildren most certainly will.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss this eye-opening look into our past &#8212; and our future. <\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/27845\">Stories in the Ice: What can past climate tell us about our future?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Browse more videos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/oceanscience\/\">Perspectives in Ocean Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like the rings of a tree can tell us about its particular history, air bubbles trapped within large bodies of ice reveal secrets about our past climate and atmospheric composition. Scientists can extract a wealth of information by drilling thousands of meters down into earth&#8217;s massive continental ice sheets and extracting ice cores. By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}