Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet
Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet
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“It’s gob-smacking”
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It’s the winter in the Antarctic. Sea ice should be rising!
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Yea well it's not. And that's bad
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The blue ocean event is coming. We're so fucked. It's going to happen so fast too.
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I’ve become somewhat of an accelerationist, better to get it over with…,
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but is that better than six-sigma, or worse?
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Per the article:
For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.
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Better, but still bad.
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shivers violently at 6Sigma
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Existential politics.
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This is a direct link:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-levels-nosedive-five-sigma-event/102635204
Thanks