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18 thoughts on “Raw data: Sea ice and ocean temps in 2023

  1. rick_jones

    Judging by the chart one sees at https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent it would seem that 2023 is not "as bad" as 2012, 2019 and 2020? Cold comfort (as it were).

    Not sure if I am mis-interpreting the chart at that URL, but it leaves me wondering why there aren't equally deviating lines for those three years in the first chart here.

    ...a bit more back and forth... and I see that the chart one gets at the URL defaults to Arctic sea ice and the chart here is Antarctic. (Insert Emily Litella reference here)

    Sure enough, switching to Antarctic at the URL shows a different picture. Interestingly enough, it also shows 2014, 2013, and 2012 as the three years with the highest extent of Antarctic sea ice.

    1. Andrew

      2012 was a bit of an anomaly as a large summer storm in the arctic lead to a record low that hasn't been beaten (yet). What's more worrying is the disappearance of multiyear ice. For example, the proportion of 4+ year old ice has gone from 30% in the '80s to below 5% now.

  2. sonofthereturnofaptidude

    All the "rugged individualism" and "market-based solutions" in the world won't be enough to deal with the effects of climate change.

  3. Goosedat

    Working hard to produce surpluses for the top 1% of income earners is insane and also destroys the biosphere.

  4. Justin

    It's too late to stop it. It was too late to stop it 50 years ago as near as I can tell. Anyway... it's been a nice summer here in Michigan so far.

    1. Vog46

      D-Ohrk

      101F off the coast of Florida is really being in (pardon the pun) uncharted waters

      That water has to cool and will get swept up into the North Atlantic where is will lose it's heat, regain it's salinity and sink to a lower level. But that heat has to go somewhere and THAT is the problem.

      It could shut down that NA current and that would be a disaster. The question I have is the current shut down a "one off" event or will that trigger even more calamities?
      I'm old and always expected to be dead when all this happened but now? I'm not so sure that I will be gone by the time it happens.........

  5. bebopman

    This was insane decades ago, when we refused to do anything to prevent it or at least ease the impact. It was “imaginary “ for so long. “Look! It’s snowing today. There is no global warming.”

  6. n1cholas

    The Limits to Growth, published in 1972 (51 years ago) already went over all of this.

    https://collections.dartmouth.edu/ebooks/meadows-limits-1972.html#epubcfi(/6/2%5Bfront_cover%5D!/4/1:0)

    It was too late 51 years ago, and societal collapse is already ongoing.

    But, go ahead and whistle past that graveyard and ignore what smart people have been saying for more than half a century - we need to burn more of the Earth's finite resources faster or else GDP might go negative and affect shareholder wealth.

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