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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: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 24 2021, @07:12PM (7 children)
We understand how averages work.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @07:22PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday June 25 2021, @04:36AM
I sense a new business opportunity...
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @07:59PM (4 children)
We understand that too. You claim a different extreme certainly happened in some unobservable places on another side of the planet, and scream a lot at top of your voice.
Creative uses of statistics are totally familiar to anyone who worked in sciences, and aiming them at ignorant populace allows for very sloppy work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @08:07PM (2 children)
So you're an idiot that likes to say "no u!" Got it. Think I'll go with the 99% of climate scientists on this one, but you do you. No need to bring up the herd mentality talking point, might as well head that excuse now.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @08:14PM (1 child)
Wonder what bodypart you use to think up such a thing?
The 99% of climate scientists go to the nice houses they bought on their nice research grants. I totally doubt you'll be welcome in any of those, no matter how many hours a day you waste playing tagalong over teh Intarwebs.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday June 24 2021, @08:35PM
Heh. Gotta love when people project personal greed and lack of ethics onto scientists of all people when they say something inconvenient. You do realize that many from your area of the venn diagram decided to follow a scientist who thinks cysts are caused by people fucking demons last year, right?
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Tork on Thursday June 24 2021, @08:24PM
Damn I wish somebody had warned me not to sip my coffee while reading this.
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