🚨 It’s official: 2026 had the lowest annual maximum Arctic sea ice extent on record - essentially tied with last year’s record low.
Climate change is reshaping the Arctic, and it's all throughout the year.
For more information from: https://nsidc.org/news-analyses/news-stories/arctic-sea-ice-record-low-maximum-strikes-again
@ZLabe I really don’t want a beachfront Ellesmere Island home with a sailboat and pet polar bear. That would be really disgusting from so many perspectives.
I’d settle for Svalbard in a nice apartment with Sue and 9 or 10 months of stable and serious winter with lots of accumulating mountain snow and thick sea ice. Another fractal reality…lol.
All of this is so depressing because heating at the poles is accelerating and the worst shit is both the Greenland eyes sheet and Antarctica. It is not going to be pretty.
That’s a huge pile of ice, the thing the glaciologists worry about are all the ice structures, I forget the name right now, but the stuff that corrals the ice sheets it keeps them from sliding off land.
I don’t think he could melt the ice sheets entirely in 50 years even with a free-for-all, but that doesn’t mean sea level and all sorts of other things don’t happen.
IIRC I think there’s even question if the scale of melting is underestimated
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