{"id":13730,"date":"2019-06-27T13:48:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T20:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=13730"},"modified":"2019-07-15T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:42:46","slug":"why-tiny-microbes-may-be-a-big-factor-in-how-climate-change-unfolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/why-tiny-microbes-may-be-a-big-factor-in-how-climate-change-unfolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Why tiny microbes may be a big factor in how climate change unfolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change is about big things: melting ice sheets, rising seas, the feverish temperature of the planet.\u00a0But scientists say it\u2019s also about little things \u2014 namely, microbes.\u00a0Like all life forms, microbes will feel the impacts of climate change. The way they respond could have huge implications for the rest of us. For instance, microbes will help determine whether natural sources of greenhouse gases rise or fall in a warming world. And they are key to ecological resilience in the face of environmental stress.\u00a0That\u2019s why a group of scientists issued a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41579-019-0222-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consensus statement<\/a>\u00a0calling for more research on the topic in this week\u2019s issue of Nature Reviews Microbiology. Ominously, they called it \u201dScientists\u2019 Warning to Humanity.\u201d\u00a0The Times spoke with\u00a0<strong>Victoria Orphan<\/strong>, a microbial ecologist at Caltech who helped write the statement, about why we shouldn\u2019t overlook microbes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change is about big things: melting ice sheets, rising seas, the feverish temperature of the planet.\u00a0But scientists say it\u2019s also about little things \u2014 namely, microbes.\u00a0Like all life forms, microbes will feel the impacts of climate change. The way they respond could have huge implications for the rest of us. For instance, microbes will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13733,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions\/13733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=13730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}