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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: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 24 2021, @05:41PM (5 children)
They don't need a mechanism! They prefer their Alt-Science "theories" to have zero predictive power!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @07:11PM (4 children)
Which of your brand of climate "science" theories has any but NEGATIVE predictive power? (Having to adjust historical data to make it fit, and to ignore all the rest of climate history with all those pesky warmings, is worse than merely mispredicting the present.)
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 24 2021, @07:16PM (3 children)
My theory predicts that if we keep increasing the GHG concentrations the average global temperature will rise. We keep increasing the concentrations and the temps keep rising.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @07:42PM (2 children)
How many years of observations contradicting your belief will you need to start doubting it?
At present, we apparently have something about five of it not growing:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202102 [noaa.gov]
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202105 [noaa.gov]
And apparently, from the graphs, nothing was growing anywhere for a couple decades before that, either, till some kind of jump in 2014; can you point to any explanation for that pattern?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @08:51PM
Using the law of "conservatives don't understand science" it is clear you do not understand those reports beyond "if you pay no attention to details then this cherry picked sentence says I'm right!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 28 2021, @02:22PM
So I followed your first link and read down to about here:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202102#seasonal [noaa.gov]
Land +1.2*C +/-0.16
The charts not far below that also show a lot of red recently (rising temperatures) and plenty of blue in the past (pre 1940s or so).
Anyway, I am curious what part of that report was supposed to support your position, as it really seems to support the position that temperatures are on the rise.