{"id":421,"date":"2008-06-23T04:02:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T04:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=421"},"modified":"2008-06-23T04:02:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T04:02:28","slug":"mapmondaythermohalineoceancirculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/mapmondaythermohalineoceancirculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Monday: Thermohaline ocean circulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/unep_thermohaline_world_ocean_circulation.png!\nThis map, put together on behalf of the \"UN Environmental Programme\":<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.grida.no\/go\/graphic\/world-ocean-thermohaline-circulation1\">http:\/\/maps.grida.no\/go\/graphic\/world-ocean-thermohaline-circulation1<\/a> , demonstrates the current system of currents that transfer heat throughout the oceans.  Often called the \"ocean conveyor belt,\" \"thermohaline circulation\":<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thermohaline_circulation\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thermohaline_circulation<\/a> is what keeps northern Europe and North America from being all together too cold in winter because it brings hot water from the tropics which warms the air in those regions.  Recently the thermohaline process has become quite popular to talk about because of increased cold, freshwater run-off coming from the polar ice caps.  Scientists are saying that these effects could slow down, stall or even reverse thermohaline circulation and (worst-case scenario) plunge northern Europe and North America into a local ice age.\nPreviously featured from UNEP on Map Monday:\n* \"Deforestation in Borneo\":<a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/432\/MapMondayDeforestationinBorneo\">http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/432\/MapMondayDeforestationinBorneo<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the thermohaline process has become quite popular to talk about because of increased cold, freshwater run-off coming from the polar ice caps.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}