[HN Gopher] Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event'
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       Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event'
        
       Author : adrian_mrd
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-07-23 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | vba616 wrote:
       | This would only exacerbate the underlying warming trend, but
       | isn't it the case that reputable scientists have predicted an
       | overlaid major warming over the next ~10 years due to the recent
       | Tonga eruption's injection of unimaginable amounts of water vapor
       | into the upper atmosphere?
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       | It occurred to me to connect it to recent unusual weather, and I
       | found that I wasn't the first, but I don't see anything about it
       | in news about the "crisis".
       | 
       | To be clear, I hadn't the least idea of whether it should result
       | in warming or cooling, but the experts seem to be saying that an
       | unprecedented amount of water vapor - which is a greenhouse gas -
       | should be stuck high in the atmosphere and result in substantial
       | additional global warming on a decade scale.
        
       | sillywalk wrote:
       | More good news.
       | 
       | https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/20/world/greenland-ice-sheet...
        
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