Good morning! I hope you have a great last week of 2022. Here's your final Monday ice update of the year - #Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the 5th lowest on record (JAXA data).

• about 10,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 630,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,190,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,520,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More real-time sea ice graphs: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/

Arctic: Sea-Ice Concentration/Extent

Near real-time visualizations [Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability] [Arctic Sea-Ice Extent and Concentration] [Arctic Sea-Ice Volume and Thickness] [Arctic Temperatures] [Antarctic Sea-Ice E…

Zachary Labe

@ZLabe
Arctic sea ice area is 1.5 m km^2 smaller than 1980s.

218 of the 238 countries in the world are smaller than this.

https://www.worldometers.info/geography/largest-countries-in-the-world/
#climatechange #climatecrisis

Largest Countries in the World by Area - Worldometer

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