{"id":1787064,"date":"2019-01-31T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787064"},"modified":"2019-01-31T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T23:22:28","slug":"the-earths-climate-zones-are-shifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/the-earths-climate-zones-are-shifting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earth’s Climate Zones Are Shifting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate change is redrawing the map<\/a>, writes Nicola Jones in a piece for\u00a0Yale Environment 360\u00a0<\/em>last October. It’s not just about polar ice caps, she writes: “Sometimes, the lines on the map can literally be redrawn: the line of where wheat will grow, or where tornadoes tend to form, where deserts end, where the frozen ground thaws, and even where the boundaries of the tropics lie.” Her article is punctuated by maps showing the changes in Earth’s climate zones, some of which dramatically and in a short period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Climate change is redrawing the map, writes Nicola Jones in a piece for\u00a0Yale Environment 360\u00a0last October. It’s not just about polar ice caps, she writes: “Sometimes, the lines on the map can literally be redrawn:… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14,879],"class_list":["post-1787064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1809046,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/climate-change-could-affect-maritime-boundaries\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787064,"position":0},"title":"Climate Change Could Affect Maritime Boundaries","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 September 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Sea level rise and coral reef destruction could have an impact on international boundaries, according to a study by University of Sydney researchers published in Environmental Research Letters. 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