Comments on: The October Country https://habitablezone.com/2023/11/03/the-october-country-9/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:11:30 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2023/11/03/the-october-country-9/#comment-52535 ER Sat, 04 Nov 2023 14:14:25 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=101601#comment-52535 ...point out that due care should be taken when comparing these monthly charts to one another. The numbers on the "Y" axis are adjusted so that the function is stretched from top to bottom as much as possible to fit the space available The range of values is expanded to fully take advantage of the space provided so that each month's graph is as easily visible as possible. But this means the graphs cannot be compared to one another. Compare this month's chart to October's, which documents the ice time series for the major melt month of September: <img src="https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2023/10/monthly_ice_09_NH_v3.0-1-350x270.png" alt="" /> By the time the blue September regression line hits 0, the Y axis will have been stretched out to cover the full range from 8.0 to 0.0. This will probably occur around 2050, so the X axis will have stretched as well. What this means is that the summer Arctic Ice cap will have lost 8 million square kilometers of ice cover in one Biblical human lifetime (three score and ten years). Not exactly what you would characterize as 'geologic time scales'. By the end of this century, I expect the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free all year round. …point out that due care should be taken when comparing these monthly charts to one another. The numbers on the “Y” axis are adjusted so that the function is stretched from top to bottom as much as possible to fit the space available The range of values is expanded to fully take advantage of the space provided so that each month’s graph is as easily visible as possible. But this means the graphs cannot be compared to one another. Compare this month’s chart to October’s, which documents the ice time series for the major melt month of September:

By the time the blue September regression line hits 0, the Y axis will have been stretched out to cover the full range from 8.0 to 0.0. This will probably occur around 2050, so the X axis will have stretched as well.

What this means is that the summer Arctic Ice cap will have lost 8 million square kilometers of ice cover in one Biblical human lifetime (three score and ten years). Not exactly what you would characterize as ‘geologic time scales’.

By the end of this century, I expect the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free all year round.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2023/11/03/the-october-country-9/#comment-52534 podrock Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:01:21 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=101601#comment-52534 Really set the "Y" axis with an ordinate of zero. We'll be there soon. Really set the “Y” axis with an ordinate of zero. We’ll be there soon.

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