Antarctic Sea Ice Extent, 1972-present
That 2023 line does not look ideal...
Source: The Economist
Each point represents a five day moving average. The x-axis is in terms of historical standard deviations, i.e each day is compared to the standard deviation of historical values for that year. So we are at -6 SD from the historical average for this point in time.
Other excellent visualizations are in the article!
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But there's nothing beautiful with this data.
Holocene extinction any%
Good. When it's gone we'll be able to get to that sweet sweet oil
[Slaps the newly exposed dirt] "It's free real estate!"
I mean.. that is literally what Russia, right-wingers, and neoliberals want..
Melt the ice, get the dino juice bc we only have 47 years of reserves left...
This is fine!
Take that, stupid mean sea ice. That's what you get for sinking our boat. Apes together strong.
This is probably one of the most insane things I've ever said but its like the Mario and Luigi of terrifying climate charts from 2023
I love graphs that don't have their axis labeled. I the first graph, y axis, what am I looking at? -2 what?
They are standard deviations, which is described in the footnote. But yeah, probably better to label that axis.
To be fair we were in a heat wave, even by the new standards set by climate change.