{"id":956,"date":"2014-04-09T19:40:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T00:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=956"},"modified":"2014-04-19T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T16:29:27","slug":"iceberg-risk-greater-today-than-the-in-the-year-of-the-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/iceberg-risk-greater-today-than-the-in-the-year-of-the-titanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceberg risk greater today than the in the year of the Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_959\" style=\"width: 704px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Titanic_Eisberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-959\" class=\"size-full wp-image-959\" alt=\"A photo of the iceberg the Titanic is believed to have hit, taken only a few days after the crash. (Credit: Stephan \u0158eho\u0159ek, Wikimedia Commons)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Titanic_Eisberg.jpg\" width=\"694\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Titanic_Eisberg.jpg 694w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Titanic_Eisberg-300x149.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Titanic_Eisberg-500x249.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the iceberg the Titanic is believed to have hit, taken only a few days after the crash. (Credit: Stephan \u0158eho\u0159ek, <a href=\"http:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Titanic_Eisberg.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new study has found that the number of icebergs is on the rise in recent years. As the polar ice sheets are shrinking, the number of icebergs is increasing. It is becoming more likely that these icebergs will make it as far south as Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>The study also claims that the risk of coming across an iceberg today is greater than it was for the Titanic.The ship sailed in 1912, a year that had an unusually high number of iceberg sightings.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/wea.2238\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>Weather<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>April 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/geography\/staff\/bigg_grant\" target=\"_blank\">Grant R. Bigg<\/a>, University of Sheffield<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has found that the number of icebergs is on the rise in recent years. As the polar ice sheets are shrinking, the number of icebergs is increasing. It is becoming more likely that these icebergs will make it as far south as Newfoundland. The study also claims that the risk of coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":959,"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":[31,176],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Titanic_Eisberg.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-fq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","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=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}