Alarming 'doom spiral' animation reveals just how large the drop in global sea ice levels were in 2016

Alarming 'doom spiral' animation reveals just how large the drop in global sea ice levels were in 2016



The animation was created by Kevin Pluck from Manchester, who posted it on Imgur. The data is based on a graph posted in November, which shows the area of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic lost each year, from 1978-2017. What is clear from both the original graph and animation, is that global sea ice levels were fairly stable for the last 40 years, until 2016 when they significantly dropped. The reason for this drop remains elusive, scientists say. However, there is some evidence that extreme weather events such as this are being driven by man-made climate change.


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