Climate Change & Climate Variability (part 10)
Hot weather is due to CO2. Cold weather is due to CO2. Heavy rain is due to CO2. Drought is due to CO2. Today I look at the variation in Central & Non-Central Arctic sea ice extent.
Back in part 9 I left us with a bit of a cliff hanger moment when we came face-to-face with this slide:
I’d pretty much run of steam at that point so decided to continue with the bake wearing a clean apron. I had thought I’d nailed the relationship between mean Arctic sea ice extent and the standard deviation of mean Arctic sea ice extent when up popped this curveball. That is some curvy thingy and I’m going to bet it represents two different phenomena glued together in time.
A clue is given by either end of the x-axis which represents minimal ice extent during the Arctic summer (left hand side) and maximal ice extent during the Arctic winter (right hand side), so let’s colour code this data cloud according to season:
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