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Earth has been trapping heat at an alarming new rate, study finds:
The amount of heat trapped by Earth's land, ocean, and atmosphere doubled over the course of just 14 years, a new study shows.
To figure out how much heat the earth was trapping, researchers looked at NASA satellite measurements that tracked how much of the Sun's energy was entering Earth's atmosphere and how much was being bounced back into space. They compared this with data from NOAA buoys that tracked ocean temperatures — which gives them an idea of how much heat is getting absorbed into the ocean.
The difference between the amount of heat absorbed by Earth, and the amount reflected back into space is called an energy imbalance. In this case, they found that from 2005 to 2019, the amount of heat absorbed by Earth was going up.
[...] The researchers think that the reason the Earth is holding on to more heat comes down to a few different factors. One is human-caused climate change. Among other problems, the more greenhouse gases we emit, the more heat they trap. It gets worse when you take into account that increasing heat also melts ice and snow. Ice and snow can help the planet reflect heat back into space — as they disappear, more heat can be absorbed by the land and oceans underneath.
There's another factor at play too — natural changes to a climate pattern called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Between 2014 and 2019, the pattern was in a 'warm phase' which caused fewer clouds to form. That also meant more heat could be absorbed by the oceans.
Journal Reference:
Norman G. Loeb, Gregory C. Johnson, Tyler J. Thorsen, et al. Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth's Heating Rate, Geophysical Research Letters (DOI: 10.1029/2021GL093047)
(Score: 1, Funny) by looorg on Thursday June 24 2021, @02:37PM (13 children)
So we need some kind of giant ventilation hole in the ozone layer? Hey didn't we have one of those, whatever happened to it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @03:29PM
It was in the Antarctic so all the cool air was sinking out the bottom. If we can turn the Earth the other way up the hot air will float out the top, as needed.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 24 2021, @03:52PM (8 children)
Some Twitter guy hidden behind a Bit.ly link says the Earth is not a closed system.
So problem solved!
(Score: 3, Touché) by pe1rxq on Thursday June 24 2021, @03:58PM
He is right.... that is exactly how the extra heat is getting in....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @06:09PM (6 children)
How could you ever think the earth was a closed system? All you have to do is look up!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @06:41PM (5 children)
His job is not to think, it is to spread propaganda.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @07:17PM (4 children)
Has anyone noticed that to a Trump supporter, "Propaganda" means "Truth that goes against my narrative and makes me cry" and "Truth" means "Lies spread by QAnon or Trump's glorious lawyer Rudi Guiliani"?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 24 2021, @07:33PM
Yes. Yes we have. Since 2015. We've been saying as much too but the son of a bitch still won 2016 and came uncomfortable close (i.e., *anyone* voted for him at all) in 2020.
Turns out telling a bunch of worthless mediocrities and grifters that all their problems are someone else's fault gets you to vote for them. Would make me lose faith in humanity if, y'know, I'd had any since the early 90s to lose.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @07:49PM (2 children)
Everyone noticed that to an orthodox leftie, "Truth" means "anything a leftie talking head said". No amount of directly observable facts can compete with gospel.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @08:00PM
Gaslight
Obstruct
Project
Remind me again which party has no platform except peddling outrage via lies and misinformation? Oh riiiight, the GOP! Which "news" network has the highest record of lies and misinformation? Oh riiiiight, Fox! Dealing with brainwashed Qultists is really obnoxious.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday June 24 2021, @08:44PM
Look up the term C'ake Sniffer'.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @06:00PM (2 children)
ofc! you can do the same with "climate" just like you do with nukes!
nukes run hot and by watching TV, charging your car, using a escalator to move your ass, fridging your beer you cool down the hot nuke.
by giving the nuke and it's turbine+generator a resistance (see before) it does work for you thus by some thermos-law cooling down the nuke.
(we assume that the nuke runs hot even BEFORE it ever reaches the generator-turbine ...)
if you replace the nuke w/ solar panels to do the same work, you are actually making the sun-rays work for you instead of having them "just warm up the climate and oceans".
by busying the sun rays with tv work, beer cooling work and car charging work they have no energy left to make the climate hot!
ah, also, solar panels don't melt!
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday June 25 2021, @01:13PM (1 child)
A bit wrong there, as all energy use eventually degrades to heat. Still, nuclear reactors do add heat to the environment, and solar panels don't (after they've been made). Depending on the span of time you consider. Nuclear reactors speed up the release of heat from fissionable materials, but they don't actually increase it...measured over enough millennia.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 25 2021, @04:53PM
soooo... what about using solar energy to fuse two iron atoms or maybe simpler fuse iron with helium?
would that (assuming the resulting atom is stable) freeze heat ... errr... energy into a universal stable lego block that know can be used in the (lesser) universal rule "but..but.. everything turns to heat" game?
anyways, doing my part by poitin' my laser pointer straight up into the vast infinite void ... powered by my solar panel (i am getting daily emails from the sun complaining about this waste on my part of her life giving energies. my reply is that i cannot afford a co2 sucker and compressor.)