Oof. An extra 0.2W/m^2 doesn't sound like a lot if you don't know what these numbers look like, but if you consider that the total amount of energy hitting the top of the atmosphere from the sun is only about 1,360W/m^2, just this heat source is equivalent to about an extra seventieth of a percent of the total solar input being retained.
Most of the original input doesn't reach the ground anyway. If you take it as a percentage of the amount that reaches the ground (342W/m^2) it's about a seventeenth of one percent.
Can't help but feel someone is pushing drastic and intense wars, in an effort to make us look away from what big oil and big money are doing to our planet.
"If the anomaly does not stabilise by August – a reasonable expectation based on previous El Niño events – then the world will be in uncharted territory. It could imply that a warming planet is already fundamentally altering how the climate system operates, much sooner than scientists had anticipated.”
Gavin Schmidt, NASA
“The Arctic is currently warming at four times the rate experienced by the rest of the planet. But the Antarctic has started to catch up, so that it is already warming twice as quickly as the planet overall.”
The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.
Bigger gaps between rich and poor are accompanied by higher rates of homicide and imprisonment
Greater equality will reduce unhealthy and excess consumption, and will increase the solidarity and cohesion that are needed to make societies more adaptable in the face of climate and other emergencies.
Does Tasmania,or indeed the world, really need Willy Wonka-Chocolate Factory in Tasmania? Is this guy a complete ****ing cretin or are there mitigating factors?
Arguing against, personally, it seems to me like chocolate is already responsible for deforestation and people need to fly less frequently if we're intending to stop global heating; I hope very much that Tasmanian Trump loses the upcoming election.
Here's one that snuck up on me. Mastodon has been as bad for my mental health as Twitter was, only in a different way. Mostly an unending stream of despair over things I have no control over. #mastodon#serenityPrayer#doomerism#climateChange#globalHeating
Here's a thing, folks. We now have a need for new category of Hurricane/Cyclone/Typhoon. Cat 6 is needed because winds are becoming so powerful due to global heating warming ocean and atmosphere temperatures.Sustained wind speed of 192 mph (307 km/h).
"Michael Wehner, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, said that “192mph is probably faster than most Ferraris, it’s hard to even imagine”. He has proposed the new category 6 alongside another researcher, James Kossin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Being caught in that sort of hurricane would be bad. Very bad.”
Bad, indeed. Maybe we need a new category of badness to describe the shitstorm we have imposed upon this tiny blue rock floating in the hostile environment of hard vacuum and radiation that we call space
As Climate Chaos Accelerates, Governments Turn Blind Eyes
Each of the six decades since 1960 saw a higher global average temperature than the 10 years that preceded it. In addition, every decade-to-decade increase has been larger than the previous one. In other words, the Earth’s not just steadily warming; it’s heating up at an ever-faster pace.
Animation of annual mean near-surface temperature anomalies in the Arctic for each year from 1950 to 2023. Data is from ERA5. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1951 to 1980 climate baseline. Graphic was updated on "1/11/2024".
Air pollution from Canada’s tar sands is much worse than we thought
Oil operations release vast quantities of damaging particles and noxious compounds.
Eunice Foote's research has been rediscovered only in the last decade. Based on published experiments, she suggested that increasing the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere would increase Earth's temperature. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2020.0031
In 1859, John Tyndall used a 'Radiant Heat Apparatus' (see photo) to measure the energy that was absorbed by gases http://pombo.free.fr/tyndall1861.pdf
20 percent of Greenland’s ice cap lost due to climate change
It has been discovered that 20% of Greenland’s ice cap has been lost due to #ClimateChange, which equates to roughly 30m tonnes of ice an hour. #GlobalHeating has been a major cause of ice loss in #Greenland. This #crisis has been closely under survey for decades, with much of the ice cap driving up sea levels.