{"id":13549,"date":"2014-01-08T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T20:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=13549"},"modified":"2014-01-08T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T20:35:38","slug":"reuters-australia-swelters-after-record-hot-2013-farmers-slaughter-cattle-bushfire-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=13549","title":{"rendered":"Reuters | Australia swelters after record hot 2013; farmers slaughter cattle, bushfire warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/frying-egg-on-sidewalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13562\" title=\"frying egg on sidewalk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/frying-egg-on-sidewalk-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/frying-egg-on-sidewalk-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/frying-egg-on-sidewalk-400x310.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/frying-egg-on-sidewalk.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Monsoon rains in Australia&#8217;s north failed last summer and the entire continent endured its hottest year since records began in 1910, the Bureau of Meteorology said on Friday. Average temperatures were 1.2 degree Celsius above the long-term average of 21.8 degree Celsius, breaking the previous record set in 2005. &#8216;The new record high calendar year temperature averaged across Australia is remarkable because it occurred not in an El Ni\u00f1o year, but a normal year,&#8217; David Karoly, a climate scientist from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, said in an emailed statement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at Reuters: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/01\/03\/us-australia-heat-idUSBREA0203720140103\">Australia swelters after record hot 2013; farmers slaughter cattle, bushfire warning<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Monsoon rains in Australia&#8217;s north failed last summer and the entire continent endured its hottest year since records began in 1910, the Bureau of Meteorology said on Friday. Average temperatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[904,213,560],"class_list":["post-13549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-australia","tag-climate-change","tag-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13549"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13567,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549\/revisions\/13567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}