Oopsie! We've broken the planet

Seriously though, this has massive implications for feedbacks and other non-linear dynamics of Arctic, northern hemisphere and global climate, ecological and human systems. Albedo (sunlight reflecting off white ice back out into space) is like our 'sun screen'.
Reposted from Zack Labe
The magnitude of the current size of the #Arctic sea ice extent anomaly is unheard of in the satellite-era record for the deep winter season months.

Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

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