{"588149":{"#nid":"588149","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Early Bird Special: Spring Pops Up Super Early in Much of US","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESpring has sprung early --\u0026nbsp;potentially record early --\u0026nbsp;in much of the United States....The unseasonably warm weather has the natural world getting ahead of --\u0026nbsp;even defying --\u0026nbsp;the calendar, scientists said. Georgia Tech climate scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Kim_Cobb\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;said what\u0026#39;s happening is disconcerting, no matter how nice it is for people.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Sure we can\u0026#39;t wait to shed our wool coats and hats each spring, but such warm temperatures are wreaking havoc, sight unseen on key crops,\u0026quot; Cobb said in an email. \u0026quot;Here in Georgia peach buds have been robbed of necessary \u0026#39;chill hours\u0026#39; this winter.\u0026quot; \u003Cem\u003EKim Cobb is a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-03-01 15:39:12","changed_gmt":"2017-03-01 16:44:32","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2017\/02\/28\/science\/ap-us-sci-early-spring.html?_r=1","dateline":{"date":"2017-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"587899":{"id":"587899","type":"image","title":"Kim Cobb","body":null,"created":"1487947305","gmt_created":"2017-02-24 14:41:45","changed":"1501531001","gmt_changed":"2017-07-31 19:56:41","alt":"Kim Cobb","file":{"fid":"226379","name":"KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":506095,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg?itok=oGvQvXcr"}}},"media_ids":["587899"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"33791","name":"kim cobb"},{"id":"807","name":"environment"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}