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Relationship of Inferred Sea Ice Extent and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

By Climate Research and Development Program August 2020 (approx.)
graph of sea ice extent and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations
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Sea ice extent inferred from peat cellulose isotopes (light blue) versus atmospheric CO2 concentrations (purple). Sea ice declines as the level of atmospheric CO2 increases. From Figure 5 in (Jones et al., 2020).

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