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Beautiful but worrying 🌍 (jlai.lu)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago

Because the northern hemisphere is mostly land mass and the southern hemisphere is mostly ocean. Land heats faster and cools faster than ocean, thus the seasonal effects are more pronounced in the data.

Same with CO2 patterns which gives a similar yearly 'breathing effect'

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