I would like to see that substantiated by some historic data. If you look at the other gray lines, they're a couple that would stand out like the 2023 one in their respective year.
What happened in those years? Did we see extreme temperature and storm records?
PS: Unfortunately there is no way to say which gray line is which year.
I would suggest that an involuntary geoforming experiment on one's own home planet - which so far is slowly but steadily making it less habitable - may not be the smartest thing a species should be doing.
A subarea of Antarctica, where they expected ice to decrease, gained ice. Antarctica as a whole lost ice.
One reason could be that this subarea is an area where ice is lost from, but also an area where ice from Antarctica moves to. So as ice in general melts, some of it also gets relocated to this area.
Like, you can ignore all sorts of science under the guise that it was bad science. Anything biology and beyond has some sort of issue with methodology.
However, a physical ship, bringing products/oil, in a previously frozen area, was undeniable.
Who would have thought it was a logistics person that flipped me rather than a scientist.
Maybe I have a deep seeded conservative bent(my parents are...), but a different environment in my lifetime sounds scary AF.
The one line which is also very high in the beginning of the year is from 2016.
This is what I found about that year: "In 2016, 342 disasters triggered by natural hazards were registered, below the 2006-2015 annual average."
2015 was a "peak" disaster year with a relatively "normal" line.
This is good for the earth and organic matter but maybe not good for humans.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
Raspberries to the Tweeters for not properly citing sources. The two grey lines you're talking about are 2016 and 2020. One of those years had the worst California fire season ever recorded. 2016 was not quite record-smashing but did have the worst blizzard in the northeast US since 1978.
The point of the tweet being: expect unprecedented events in 2023.
There is. If you want to see reality, click on the "hide all" button, then pick a few years. 1984, 1990, 2022 and 2023 are good. Then try to get the people whose job depends on pretending everything is fine to explain how this is normal.