{"id":776,"date":"2003-08-05T04:08:16","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T04:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:20","slug":"sky-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"sky higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The sky is rising and human-caused changes in  ozone and greenhouse gases are largely to blame, say researchers in the  July 25 <em>Science.<\/em> The height of the tropopause &#8212; the boundary between  the stratosphere and the troposphere, the atmosphere&#8217;s lowest layer that  extends to the Earth&#8217;s surface &#8212; has risen by almost 700 feet since  1979. The tropopause is important because it plays an active role in the  development of weather systems, said Brian Hoskins of the University of  Reading&#8217;s Department of Meteorology in a related article. B. D. Santer  of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and  colleagues used weather forecasts and other data from the past 20 years  to computer-model a series of atmospheric simulations. The researchers  discovered that greenhouse-gas warming in the troposphere and  ozone-related cooling in the stratosphere accounted for about 80 percent  of the rise. Hoskins writes, &#8220;Continuing changes in the properties of  the tropopause as a result of human activity could have wide-ranging  implications because of its physical and chemical roles in the climate  system.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 8\/05\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky is rising and human-caused changes in ozone and greenhouse gases are largely to blame, say researchers in the July 25 Science. The height of the tropopause &#8212; the boundary between the stratosphere and the troposphere, the atmosphere&#8217;s lowest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=776\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}