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"How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in
different places over a long period of time. While this works well, natural
variation can make it harder to see longer-term trends.
But another approach can give us a very clear sense of what’s going on: track
how much heat enters Earth’s atmosphere and how much heat leaves. This is
Earth’s energy budget, and it’s now well and truly out of balance.
Our recent research found this imbalance has more than doubled over the last 20
years. Other researchers have come to the same conclusions. This imbalance is
now substantially more than climate models have suggested.
In the mid-2000s, the energy imbalance was about 0.6 watts per square metre
(W/m²) on average. In recent years, the average was about 1.3 W/m². This means
the rate at which energy is accumulating near the planet’s surface has doubled.
These findings suggest climate change might well accelerate in the coming
years. Worse still, this worrying imbalance is emerging even as funding
uncertainty in the United States threatens our ability to track the flows of
heat."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
