For those of you planning to read this to find some positive climate news. Don't bother.
For those of you planning to read this to find some positive climate news. Don't bother.
There was a study out of NASA/JPL that made a correct and timely prediction of major warming a year in advance (i.e. arriving last fall)
It gave a forcing estimate of +0.15 Wm−2, *equivalent to half a decade of global human CO2 forcing* arriving mainly at 18-24 months after Jan 2022 (last fall) and lasting for 5+ years
Here's the study
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...
roughly how many tons of TNT would it take to heat the atmosphere that much?
But our planet (and with it, atmosphere) is hardly affected by humanity's activities adding heat directly. Instead it's GHGs that affect the inflow/outflow balance of heat from the sun.
The heat from gasoline you burn is quickly dissipated. But the CO2 produced has an effect for many decades to come.