Four Hiroshima bombs a second: How we imagine climate change

[damnedifIknow]

'Ninety percent of the excess heat trapped in our atmosphere by greenhouse gases is actually absorbed by our oceans and ice. Without the oceans, that heat would be in our atmosphere. But because of the oceans, we can underestimate climate change.

The Cook team measured the amount of heat the oceans have absorbed in Joules. In terms of visualising warming, Joules are not very meaningful. So the team chose to convert ocean warming into a release of energy etched into the collective memory of the 20thcentury – the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

And the maths of this is quite disturbing. The equivalent of the heat released by 345,600 Hiroshima bombs is absorbed by the earth every day, or four bombs every second. Ninety per cent of the heat released by those bombs is going into the ocean."


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-08-hiroshima-climate.html#jCp

[tk2kewl]

1. 6cm/decade is the current rate of sea level rise

I figure I have another 10-15 years to get out of dodge w/o losing my shirt on the money I have invested in my home



http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/en/news/ocean-indicators/mean-sea-level/

[damnedifIknow]

2. We need a war on terror alright

since climate change is without a doubt the biggest threat we face.