{"id":17657,"date":"2022-02-16T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17657"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:25:40","slug":"2022-02-16-western-us-megadrought-worst-in-1200-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17657","title":{"rendered":"2022-02-16 Western US Megadrought Worst In 1200 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 22 year long Megadrought that has been plaguing the western US is the worst in 1200 years. It has been made much worse by climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&lt; Human-caused climate change is responsible for about 42% of the soil moisture deficit since 2000, according to the study. &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/worst-megadrought-in-1200-years-caused-by-climate-change-study\/11564048\/\">https:\/\/6abc.com\/worst-megadrought-in-1200-years-caused-by-climate-change-study\/11564048\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>US drought monitor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?west\">https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?west<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22 year long Megadrought that has been plaguing the western US is the worst in 1200 years. It has been made much worse by climate change. &lt;&lt; Human-caused climate change is responsible for about 42% of the soil moisture deficit since 2000, according to the study. &gt;&gt; https:\/\/6abc.com\/worst-megadrought-in-1200-years-caused-by-climate-change-study\/11564048\/ US drought monitor: https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?west<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[466,1106,863],"tags":[1831,485,1829,1832,1830],"class_list":["post-17657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-meteorology-weather","category-weather","tag-1200-years","tag-climate-change","tag-megadrought","tag-tree-ring-study","tag-western-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17660,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657\/revisions\/17660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}