| ▲ | 0xcde4c3db 7 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> you mean the sea ice, that had the highest extent in 20 years this year? Your link says it's "the seventh highest recorded since 2006 when this metric from IMS was first tracked consistently". Where are you getting "highest extent in 20 years"? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | genewitch 6 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yep, and they're using numbers from February, cute, isn't it? If you go look at the actual numbers, it was higher in 2002, but the 20 year period 2003-2023, the arctic sea ice extent in 2024 was higher than all those years. Now, i'd love to do all the work for you, but the government makes it difficult on cursory inspection to get this data in bulk, when i did this myself 2 months ago, i assure you the graph is higher this year than all the other years. in fact, go google "sea ice extent 2024" and see how many different figures you get and check the dates! February 2024 they were claiming we were in dire straits because it was at 15.01mm sqkm. what you have to do, as a reasonable person, is get the actual data, as granular as you can. 2024's ice extent was above 1995s, even. and approached 1990s. it was way higher than 2014-2020: https://scied.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/documents/sea-ice... https://i.imgur.com/ZIopSoI.png My point is just repeating ad nauseam tripe like "the ice is melting" and "hottest year ever" isn't convincing anyone of anything. I'm also tired after doing this reading and research and talking about it and arguing about it for 23 years now, already. I can't be the only one who looks at the actual data, can i? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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