{"id":9018,"date":"2012-09-20T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/arctic-sea-ice-reaches-lowest-extent-on-record-while-antarctic-ice-grows\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T10:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:47:51","slug":"arctic-sea-ice-reaches-lowest-extent-on-record-while-antarctic-ice-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/arctic-sea-ice-reaches-lowest-extent-on-record-while-antarctic-ice-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent on record while Antarctic ice grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists announced yesterday that Arctic sea ice had completed its summer melt and in the end reached the lowest extent since satellite measurements began. At the other end of the globe Antarctica was seeing the exact opposite as the ice at the South Pole grows to record levels.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/arctic-sea-ice-reaches-lowest-extent-on-record-while-antarctica-ice-grows?cid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com<\/a>. \u00a0Be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/video\/massive-arctic-cyclone-shreds-sea-ice-leading-to-record-low-sea-ice-extent\" target=\"_blank\">check out the video<\/a> of the early August storm that tore the Arctic ice to shreds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/slideshow\/while-arctic-sea-ice-reaches-record-lows-antarctica-sea-ice-reaches-record-highs-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Satellite data reveal how the new record low Arctic sea ice extent, from Sept. 16, 2012, compares to the average minimum extent over the past 30 years (in yellow). (NASA)\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/ce\/be\/cebec38f1cec8ec4b6361d44a8c9b74f.jpg\" alt=\"Satellite data reveal how the new record low Arctic sea ice extent, from Sept. 16, 2012, compares to the average minimum extent over the past 30 years (in yellow). (NASA)\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satellite data reveal how the new record low Arctic sea ice extent, from Sept. 16, 2012, compares to the average minimum extent over the past 30 years (in yellow). (NASA) Click the image to view a slideshow on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice levels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists announced yesterday that Arctic sea ice had completed its summer melt and in the end reached the lowest extent since satellite measurements began. At the other end of the globe Antarctica was seeing the exact opposite as the ice at the South Pole grows to record levels.\u00a0Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/arctic-sea-ice-reaches-lowest-extent-on-record-while-antarctic-ice-grows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent on record while Antarctic ice grows<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,540],"tags":[531,381,131,614,382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9021,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}