{"id":1315,"date":"2014-04-21T12:53:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:00:52","slug":"the-climate-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2014\/04\/21\/the-climate-wizard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Climate Wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Climate Wizard is an interactive map that allows users to view the future predictions for temperature and rainfall as well as historic records for any area in the world; available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatewizard.org\/\">http:\/\/www.climatewizard.org\/<\/a> The Climate Wizard allows users to specify analysis area, time period, climate model, average temperature or precipitation, and average or change. Analysis area allows users to select either global or specific regions, such as a state, although increased zoom is available.\u00a0 Climate model can also be changed to see different prediction levels; low, medium, high.<\/p>\n<p>The interactive map allows users to visualize what a particular region of the world will look like in 2050 or 2080, hopefully educating users on the changes that can be expected. The Climate Wizard also allows users to look back over the past 50 years to see changes that may have already occurred. Modeling precipitation and average temperature may also help local governments and policy makers take climate into account in decision making.<\/p>\n<p>The Climate Wizard was developed in a collaborative effort by The Nature Conservancy, University of Washington, and the University of Southern Mississippi in 2009. The data for creating the predictions for specific regions of the world was gathered from Oregon State University and a variety of other contributors that model changes in precipitation and temperature.\u00a0 The Wizard uses data and predictions from the IPCC fourth report. Hopefully the Climate Wizard will be updated with the predictions from the IPCC fifth report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Climate Wizard is an interactive map that allows users to view the future predictions for temperature and rainfall as well as historic records for any area in the world; available at http:\/\/www.climatewizard.org\/ The Climate Wizard allows users to specify &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2014\/04\/21\/the-climate-wizard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1043,1046,1044,1045,44767,1342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atmosphere","category-biosphere","category-hydrosphere","category-lithosphere","category-spring-2014","category-tools-of-the-geographer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}