{"id":2477,"date":"2013-04-26T23:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T23:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2018\/12\/23\/1010-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2019-07-14T02:26:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T02:26:14","slug":"science-review-north-highest-temperature-since-600-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/26\/science-review-north-highest-temperature-since-600-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Review: North highest temperature since 600 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature11969\">Original research Letter\u00a0in Nature\u00a0(April 11, 2013)<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Background<\/strong>: Although it has been known that Northern latitudes have had extreme temperature highs, it is difficult to prove that those are higher than any in the past.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Methods<\/strong>: Use\u00a0hierarchical Bayesian approach&#8230;(?)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Results<\/strong>: Recent years have the highest extremes, and approx. 0 lowest extremes. The past 20yrs are 1.16C higher than the past 600yrs average. It seems that these are due to an increase in temperature average, and not in a change in the variation of temperature around each years&#8217; averages.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Details<\/strong>: Whole space average for summers of previous 600 yrs. Summer of 2010 was highest for western Russia (P&gt;0.99) and probably Greenland and Canadian arctic (P&gt;0.90).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Original research Letter\u00a0in Nature\u00a0(April 11, 2013). Background: Although it has been known that Northern latitudes have had extreme temperature highs, it is difficult to prove that those are higher than any in the past. Methods: Use\u00a0hierarchical Bayesian approach&#8230;(?) Results: Recent years have the highest extremes, and approx. 0 lowest extremes. The past 20yrs are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,242,16,17],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-evernote-entries","category-science","category-science-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2621,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/10\/14\/science-review-nature-journal-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":2477,"position":0},"title":"Monday October 14, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"October 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This is Nature October 10 2013, Vol. 502, Iss. 7470, Pp. 141-264. 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