Ariaan Purich
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Ariaan Purich
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Climate scientist • coffee drinker • herder of small children • she/her
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Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)

• about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,280,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,850,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,290,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
February 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by Ariaan Purich
This is really quite something... Antarctic sea ice extent is back to a record low for the current date. This is actually below 2016, which was previously a massive outlier in November and December.

More sea ice graphs at: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
December 8, 2023 at 4:30 PM
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"How do you tell a bad news story? The conventional wisdom is that you’re supposed to give people hope: to say that there’s a disaster behind one door, but we can avoid it if only we choose a different one. What do you do when your science tells you that all doors lead to the same disaster?"
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Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable – new research
Humanity has lost control of West Antarctic ice-sheet melting.
theconversation.com
October 23, 2023 at 11:47 PM