The question to ask is, "where is the energy coming from". Doug is right, you should read Goodes' Earthshine paper from 2021. Two separate projects, Goodes' Project Earthshine and NASA's CERES project, using different methodologies, reached the same conclusion.
The Earth/s albedo has dimmed. Enough to double the rate of warming from 0.18C…
The question to ask is, "where is the energy coming from". Doug is right, you should read Goodes' Earthshine paper from 2021. Two separate projects, Goodes' Project Earthshine and NASA's CERES project, using different methodologies, reached the same conclusion.
The Earth/s albedo has dimmed. Enough to double the rate of warming from 0.18C/decade to around 0.36C/decade.
This acceleration in the amount of energy pouring into the global ocean is reflected in string of "record breaking" ocean temperatures for the last 8 years. In conjunction with the unmasking of heat that was being hidden by the SOx particulate released from the old diesel fuels (went from 3.5% sulfur content to 0.5% in 2020) the next few years are going to be catastrophically hot.
Hi Richard, no doubt the next few years will be catastrophically hot, and extreme weather events will increase.
We may still be able to avoid meltdown if we test, and then deploy, planetary cooling technologies of which there are quite a few. If you’re not familiar with this idea, it’s to reduce atmospheric temperatures while the process of decarbonisation kicks in, that is, to buy time while we address the root cause.
The question to ask is, "where is the energy coming from". Doug is right, you should read Goodes' Earthshine paper from 2021. Two separate projects, Goodes' Project Earthshine and NASA's CERES project, using different methodologies, reached the same conclusion.
The Earth/s albedo has dimmed. Enough to double the rate of warming from 0.18C/decade to around 0.36C/decade.
This acceleration in the amount of energy pouring into the global ocean is reflected in string of "record breaking" ocean temperatures for the last 8 years. In conjunction with the unmasking of heat that was being hidden by the SOx particulate released from the old diesel fuels (went from 3.5% sulfur content to 0.5% in 2020) the next few years are going to be catastrophically hot.
Hi Richard, no doubt the next few years will be catastrophically hot, and extreme weather events will increase.
We may still be able to avoid meltdown if we test, and then deploy, planetary cooling technologies of which there are quite a few. If you’re not familiar with this idea, it’s to reduce atmospheric temperatures while the process of decarbonisation kicks in, that is, to buy time while we address the root cause.