{"id":8100,"date":"2012-02-26T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T11:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2012-02-26T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T11:15:33","slug":"climate-change-in-london-and-the-thames-estuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/climate-change-in-london-and-the-thames-estuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change in London and the Thames Estuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8102\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ten_degrees_cooler1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8102\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8102\" title=\"ten_degrees_cooler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ten_degrees_cooler1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ten_degrees_cooler1.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ten_degrees_cooler1-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ten_degrees_cooler1-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ten_degrees_cooler1-624x453.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate change in London and the Thames Estuary<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The above chart, from the Museum of London, shows the pattern of climate change in the past\u00a0 500,000 years. It does not have a vertical scale but I think mean temperatures were about ten degrees centigrade cooler at the Last Glacial Maximum (the last dip before the 50,000 years of global warming before the present).  I am not a chart expert or a climate change expert but, to me, it looks as though a period of global cooling should be expected, whatever the consequences of man-made (anthropogenic) climate change.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8158\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/river_change_climate_change_global_warming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/river_change_climate_change_global_warming.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"river_change_climate_change_global_warming\" width=\"775\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/river_change_climate_change_global_warming.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/river_change_climate_change_global_warming-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/river_change_climate_change_global_warming-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/river_change_climate_change_global_warming-624x161.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate change has produced dramatic changes in the landscape of the Thames Valley<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above chart, from the Museum of London, shows the pattern of climate change in the past\u00a0 500,000 years. It does not have a vertical scale but I think mean temperatures were about ten degrees centigrade cooler at the Last Glacial Maximum (the last dip before the 50,000 years of global warming before the present). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}