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This photo is rather alarming https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1320024088954294275/photo/1 https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1320024088954294275/photo/1

sbeller 6y ago
Just an exponential function showing its true colors, not sure what is alarming here. /s
- JoeAltmaier 6y ago
  Hasn't done this for 6000 years. Its doing things like this everywhere. So while one data point can be thought of as 'normal' or 'just how an exponential function works', a global phenomenon is damning. We're in a very fast, very abrupt warming time. Nothing like any historical period. Not explainable as normal variation.
ornornor 6y ago
Nah we all know global warming is a hoax. /s
- raarts 6y ago
  Sure, but we now can say with certainty that 2020 isn't the hottest year on record for that particular region.
lumberingjack 6y ago
Sweet giant plants and firestorms that cover the planet making more coal for future generations.
- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  They don't, though; firestorms are the opposite of what you want for coal generation.
  - jamiek88 6y ago
    Also coal was made in the Carboniferous when there were no wood eating microbes. The lack of creatures digesting wood is gave us coal. So...no. No silver lining. Or at least not that one.
  - Tuna-Fish 6y ago
    Most of our coal reserves were deposited as charcoal, after a firestorm.
penteract 6y ago
The more recent graphs https://sites.uci.edu/zlabe/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/ https://sites.uci.edu/zlabe/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentrati... (linked to in that tweet) look less immediately alarming (this year is no longer an outlier), but the general trend is still perfectly clear.
- halfdan 6y ago
  Two standard deviations from the mean is an outlier.
  - penteract 6y ago
    It's an outlier if you assume nothing's changing, but there are better ways to say that sea ice is generally shrinking than by pointing out that the current year is an outlier. I meant that it doesn't look like an outlier if you assume arctic sea ice is decreasing (linearly?) over time (it does look like an outlier even there if you focus on October 24th).
k33n 6y ago
Nothing to be alarmed about. We are but passengers on this great planet. 10,000 years is nothing.
- Ekaros 6y ago
  The planet will still be here in immediate future. Ofc in short term it will be eventually gone due to sun engulfing it.
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
  How is there nothing to be alarmed about when the cause of the ice retreating is anthropogenic?
  - k33n 6y ago
    And then everyone clapped

sbeller 6y ago

Just an exponential function showing its true colors, not sure what is alarming here. /s

JoeAltmaier 6y ago
Hasn't done this for 6000 years. Its doing things like this everywhere. So while one data point can be thought of as 'normal' or 'just how an exponential function works', a global phenomenon is damning. We're in a very fast, very abrupt warming time. Nothing like any historical period. Not explainable as normal variation.

ornornor 6y ago

Nah we all know global warming is a hoax. /s

raarts 6y ago
Sure, but we now can say with certainty that 2020 isn't the hottest year on record for that particular region.

lumberingjack 6y ago

Sweet giant plants and firestorms that cover the planet making more coal for future generations.

TeMPOraL 6y ago
They don't, though; firestorms are the opposite of what you want for coal generation.
- jamiek88 6y ago
  Also coal was made in the Carboniferous when there were no wood eating microbes. The lack of creatures digesting wood is gave us coal. So...no. No silver lining. Or at least not that one.
- Tuna-Fish 6y ago
  Most of our coal reserves were deposited as charcoal, after a firestorm.

penteract 6y ago

The more recent graphs https://sites.uci.edu/zlabe/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/ https://sites.uci.edu/zlabe/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentrati... (linked to in that tweet) look less immediately alarming (this year is no longer an outlier), but the general trend is still perfectly clear.

halfdan 6y ago
Two standard deviations from the mean is an outlier.
- penteract 6y ago
  It's an outlier if you assume nothing's changing, but there are better ways to say that sea ice is generally shrinking than by pointing out that the current year is an outlier. I meant that it doesn't look like an outlier if you assume arctic sea ice is decreasing (linearly?) over time (it does look like an outlier even there if you focus on October 24th).

k33n 6y ago

Nothing to be alarmed about. We are but passengers on this great planet. 10,000 years is nothing.

Ekaros 6y ago
The planet will still be here in immediate future. Ofc in short term it will be eventually gone due to sun engulfing it.
x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
How is there nothing to be alarmed about when the cause of the ice retreating is anthropogenic?
- k33n 6y ago
  And then everyone clapped