{"id":497,"date":"2011-10-03T02:48:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T06:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=497"},"modified":"2011-10-03T02:50:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T06:50:25","slug":"nasa-it-rained-so-hard-the-oceans-fell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/nasa-it-rained-so-hard-the-oceans-fell\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA: It Rained So Hard the Oceans Fell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/10\/02\/332364\/nasa-rained-so-hard-oceans-fell\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sept11-rain-sea-level.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sea levels have been rising steadily for over a century as the ever warmer ocean water expands and the world\u2019s remaining glaciers and ice sheets melt. In fact sea levels are rising twice as fast now as they were a few decades ago. As the NASA chart above shows there have been some ups and downs but nothing in the modern satellite record comes close to the 6 mm drop worldwide last year.<\/p>\n<p>While 6 mm might not sound like a lot, when collected from the surface of all our planet\u2019s oceans it adds up to 26,000 gallons of water per human.<\/p>\n<p>So just where did all this missing water go?<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/10\/02\/332364\/nasa-rained-so-hard-oceans-fell\/\">NASA: It Rained So Hard the Oceans Fell | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Sea levels have been rising steadily for over a century as the ever warmer ocean water expands and the world\u2019s remaining glaciers and ice sheets melt. In fact sea levels are rising twice as fast now as they were a few decades ago. As the NASA chart above shows there have been some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22,18],"tags":[258,293,292,291,290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}