{"id":45539,"date":"2022-06-19T01:26:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T16:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/18\/burning-planet-why-are-the-worlds-heatwaves-getting-more-intense"},"modified":"2022-06-19T01:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T16:26:06","slug":"burning-planet-why-are-the-worlds-heatwaves-getting-more-intense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45539","title":{"rendered":"Burning planet: why are the world\u2019s heatwaves getting more intense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March, the north and south poles had record temperatures. In May in Delhi, it hit 49C. Last week in Madrid, 40C. Experts say the worst effects of the climate emergency cannot be avoided if emissions continue to rise<\/p>\n<p>When the temperature readings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/mar\/20\/heatwaves-at-both-of-earth-poles-alarm-climate-scientists\" title=\"\">started to come through from Antarctic weather stations<\/a> in early March, scientists at first thought there might have been some mistake. Temperatures, which should have been cooling rapidly as the south pole\u2019s brief summer faded, were soaring \u2013 at the Vostok station, about 800 miles from the geographic south pole, thermometers recorded a massive 15C hotter than the previous all-time record, while at Terra Nova coastal base the water hovered above freezing, unheard of for the time of year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow. I have never seen anything like this,\u201d ice scientist Ted Scambos, of the University of Colorado, told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/18\/burning-planet-why-are-the-worlds-heatwaves-getting-more-intense\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, the north and south poles had record temperatures. In May in Delhi, it hit 49C. Last week in Madrid, 40C. Experts say the worst effects of the climate emergency cannot be avoided if emissions continue to riseWhen the temperature readings star&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[489,2331,2084,65,455,564,62,2686,299,746,488,47,490,723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-weather","category-climate-crisis","category-drought","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-india","category-meteorology","category-science","category-spain","category-uk-weather","category-us-news","category-us-weather","category-wildfires"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45540,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45539\/revisions\/45540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}