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"The world is warming. This fact is most often discussed for the Earth’s
surface, where we live. But the climate is also changing from the top of the
atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean. And there is a clear fingerprint of
humanity’s role in causing these changes through greenhouse gas emissions,
primarily from burning fossil fuels.
Over the last several decades, satellites have monitored the Earth and measured
how much heat enters and leaves the atmosphere. Over that time, as greenhouse
gas concentrations have increased in the atmosphere, there has been less heat
escaping to space, causing an imbalance with more heat being retained.
The consequence is a rapidly heating planet.
The “warming stripes” are one striking and simple way of visually highlighting
the resulting variations in Earth’s surface temperature using shades of blue
and red for cool and warm, with one stripe per year.
One billion individual measurements of a thermometer combine to produce the
clearest picture of our warming planet from 1850 to 2025. The last 11 years
have been the warmest 11 years on record and this sequence is unlikely to end
anytime soon.
We recently extended this concept upwards through the atmosphere and downwards
into the ocean, although the available datasets are shorter."
Via Muse.
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
