{"id":1445,"date":"2014-05-11T13:03:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T18:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2014-05-12T10:11:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:11:49","slug":"why-climate-change-is-drying-out-australia-while-antarctica-resists-the-warming-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/why-climate-change-is-drying-out-australia-while-antarctica-resists-the-warming-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Why climate change is drying out Australia while Antarctica resists the warming trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By developing a 1,000-year history of wind currents over the Southern Ocean, an Australian-led research has discovered the answers to two climate change-related mysteries. Firstly, why southern Australia is drying out, and secondly, why Antarctica isn\u2019t warming as much as the rest of the planet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Their work shows that the winds encircling Antarctica have sped up and moved south as a result of climate change, drawing rain clouds away from Australia and keeping the continent cool. Western Australia is the state that has suffered most so far, losing 20 per cent of its winter rainfall since the 1960s. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">From our friends at the Australian Science Media Centre. Journalists registered with them can access the <\/span><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smc.org.au\/2014\/05\/news-briefing-alert-why-climate-change-is-drying-out-australia-while-antarctica-bucks-the-warming-trend-nature-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">news briefing here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nclimate2235.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/344\/6183\/495.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>published in the the journal\u00a0<em>Nature Climate Change\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 11, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/researchers.anu.edu.au\/researchers\/abram-nj\" target=\"_blank\">Nerilie J. Abram<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;\">,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Australian National University, Australia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By developing a 1,000-year history of wind currents over the Southern Ocean, an Australian-led research has discovered the answers to two climate change-related mysteries. Firstly, why southern Australia is drying out, and secondly, why Antarctica isn\u2019t warming as much as the rest of the planet. Their work shows that the winds encircling Antarctica have sped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1361,31,215,176,1362,1363],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-antarctic","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-weather","tag-wind","tag-wind-currents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-nj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}