March 22, 2012

Earth Is Still Warming . . . A LOT

Zachary Shahan, Planetsave


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In a previous post we discussed how the argument that the Earth has stopped warming doesn’t make much sense because the people claiming this don’t know how to draw their ‘system boundaries’ correctly — how can you work out whether the Earth is warming if you don’t take account of all the places where it may be warming? And most commentary seems to only focus on surface temperatures. Which is only 3% of the Total Heat Content change.

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TAGGED: global warming, continents, climate change, greenhouse gases

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