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Zack Labe
@zacklabe.com

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 5th lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 320,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 720,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,170,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,640,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊

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jazznature.bsky.social
@jazznature.bsky.social

This truly terrifying and the inability of so many to recognize what data like this means shows how utterly unprepared humans are for what we’ve created. The present is already so outside of our historical understanding and the gap widens daily. There’s no hiding and soon everyone will see that

narcchronicles.bsky.social
@narcchronicles.bsky.social

Pretty interesting that the late season trend continues slowly up even while staying at a seasonal record low. Strong mean-reversion behavior there, although the little day-to-day changes at this time are pretty meaningless and the underlying ice condition's probably awful