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Last month was the warmest January on record globally.

It was also separately the warmest January for global land areas and the 2nd warmest for global ocean areas.

Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/noaa-global-temp

Credits: https://mastodon.social/@ZLabe@fediscience.org

Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,140,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,040,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/ Credits: https://mastodon.social/@ZLabe@fediscience.org

No one alive will experience a better climate than we have today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future.