What does this mean? It means that the vast majority of newly trapped solar energy has been absorbed by the oceans to melt Arctic and Antarctic glaciers, permafrost, and methane clathrates. In the moment they are melted enough the incoming heat shifts from melting the ice into rapidly raising the water temperature. That is when you will see sudden global air temperature increases. We are on the verge of this.
The Change in Earth's Total Heat Content graph also underscores just how much global warming the planet is experiencing. Since 1970, the Earth's heat content has been rising at a rate of 6 x 10 to the 21st power Joules per year. In more meaningful terms, the planet has been accumulating energy at a rate of 190,260 gigawatts. Considering a typical nuclear power plant has an output of 1 gigawatt, imagine 190,000 nuclear power plants pouring their energy output directly into our oceans. Our climate is still accumulating heat. Global warming is still happening. (Reference: www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-intermediate.htm)
THE INDICTMENT
Hallor Thorgeirsson, a senior
director with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said
on 17 September 2013: "We are failing as an international community. We are not
on track." These are the people who know about, and presumably could do
something about, our ongoing race to disaster. (Reference: Climate Change Summary and Update http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-update)
We have already triggered 38 self-reinforcing feedback loops. 34 of those are irreversible. The most deadly is the arctic methane tipping point. (Reference: http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-update/) (Reference: Guy McPherson www.youtube.com/watch?v=odlReNpGQ7c )
"A 4 degrees C warmer world can, and must be, avoided -- we need to hold warming below 2 degrees C," said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. (Reference: www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2012/11/18/Climate-change-report-warns-dramatically-warmer-world-this-century)
The World Bank's climate models do
not include any of the 38 self-reinforcing feedback loops. (Reference: Guy McPherson www.youtube.com/watch?v=odlReNpGQ7c, and Climate Change Summary and Update http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-update)
Globally in 2011 government fossil fuel subsidies topped half a trillion dollars. (Reference: Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies www.odi.org/subsidies-change-the-game)
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