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Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet

“It’s gob-smacking”

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/antarctic-sea-ice-levels-dive-in-five-sigma-event-as-experts-flag-worsening-consequences-for-planet/ar-AA1ef89NOpen link View original on lemmy.world

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This is a direct link:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-levels-nosedive-five-sigma-event/102635204

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TokenBoomer reply

Thanks

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It’s the winter in the Antarctic. Sea ice should be rising!

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nutbiggums reply

Yea well it's not. And that's bad

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The blue ocean event is coming. We're so fucked. It's going to happen so fast too.

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TokenBoomer reply

I’ve become somewhat of an accelerationist, better to get it over with…,

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but is that better than six-sigma, or worse?

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Per the article:

For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.

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TokenBoomer reply

Better, but still bad.

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Tronn4 reply

shivers violently at 6Sigma

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Existential politics.

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