Another Extreme Low for Antarctic Sea Ice Signals a Permanent Shift

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It's been less than 10 years since they had an all time high for summer sea ice extent.

had to check. confirmed.

article "As recently as September 2014, Antarctic sea ice set an all-time record-high extent. The consecutive string of low sea ice extents in recent years, however, are not easily explained by natural climate variability."

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/antarcti....

The article describes maybe a larger oscillation between highs and lows is occurring.

Volume doesn't seem to have been particularly high in 2014, though.

Here's a graph of estimated ice volume since 1979: https://psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/schweige...

that's arctic.

Duh. You're right, my bad.

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