TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoAntarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planetwww.msn.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down16file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareSquirrellinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoPer 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.
Per the article: