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Correlation Between Arctic And Antarctic Sea Ice Anomalies

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1979-2012

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-2008

When Arctic ice is strongly negative, Antarctic ice is strongly positive, and vice-versa.  r² = 0.05

There is also a very good correlation before 1979

First IPCC report

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