VoxDei

VoxDei, 1 day ago to climate

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.

That's... um... quite a lot of extra heat.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/termination-shock-cut-in-ship-pollution-sparked-global-heating-spurt

#climatecrisis #globalheating #shipping #pollution #guardian

drandrewv2, 7 days ago to random

Reader: I finished; I left the job.

Now I’ve got a week off to gather myself a bit, but I’ve been bat-signalled back to my native trade union: home with my fellow nerds, and among the shades of my literal ancestors… and at SUCH a time for union-building & intelligence!