{"id":5041,"date":"2023-06-25T06:36:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T04:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2023-06-25T06:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T04:36:35","slug":"how-climate-change-drives-extreme-heat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/06\/25\/how-climate-change-drives-extreme-heat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How climate change drives extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat is defined from a baseline of average temperature in any given location, which varies widely around the world. So a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) might be record-breaking in some parts of Canada in the spring, but below average in the Middle East for the same period.\u00a0 <span>&quot;The root of the problem is greenhouse gases that trap heat,&quot; said Martin Jucker, a lecturer at the University of New South Wales&#039; Centre for Climate Change Research. <\/span><span>Gases like\u00a0<\/span><span>carbon dioxide<\/span><span>\u00a0, methane and\u00a0<\/span><span>nitrous oxide<\/span><span> they play a key role in preventing heat from being reflected or lost from our atmosphere. (<em>Sara HUSSEIN)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat is defined from a baseline of the average temperature in any given location, which varies widely around the world. So a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) might be a record high in parts of Canada in the spring, but below average in the Middle East for the same period. \u201eThe root of the problem is greenhouse gases that trap [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}