{"id":1807889,"date":"2022-06-30T19:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T23:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1807889"},"modified":"2022-06-30T19:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T23:45:51","slug":"the-climate-shift-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/06\/the-climate-shift-index\/","title":{"rendered":"The Climate Shift Index"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Climate<\/p>\n

Bloomberg<\/em> has the story<\/a> on the Climate Shift Index<\/a>, which maps the impact of climate change on daily temperatures in the U.S. It doesn\u2019t quite work the way you\u2019d expect at first glance: the index, ranging from -5 to +5, measures the calculated impact of climate change on the current temperatures. This video<\/a>\u00a0explains how it works, as does the FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bloomberg has the story on the Climate Shift Index, which maps the impact of climate change on daily temperatures in the U.S. It doesn\u2019t quite work the way you\u2019d expect at first glance: the index,… 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":[14,879,158],"class_list":["post-1807889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789334,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/how-climate-change-will-transform-the-united-states\/","url_meta":{"origin":1807889,"position":0},"title":"How Climate Change Will Transform the United States","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 September 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"ProPublica has released a series of climate maps showing the impact 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