There is now less #SeaIce in the #Arctic than we ever recorded in mid December.

And we measure since the 1970s.

#climateChange @osi_saf @CopernicusECMWF

For a while in my life I did a good bit of this. It is quite an incredible place, and all this freezes and melts in Earth's second largest seasonal cycle...

...yet we still know so little about it...

#seaice #lidar #climate #calval #Antarctica

every now and then, I look at this graph, and think about how, for decades, from 1979 until the boreal fall, or austral spring, of 2016, antarctic sea ice just seemed to ignore global warming, showing no trend. Then, suddenly, as the end of 2016 and the southern hemisphere summer approached, *clunk* antarctic sea ice fell down, and did not get up.

graph by @ZLabe , from https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/

#ice
#globalWarming
#seaIce
#Antarctic
#AntarcticSeaIce
#climate