Climate Change is Adding Energy Equivalent to Exploding Thousands of Nuclear Weapons Per Day
Nowadays, everyone is aware of climate change, and the majority of those who still wish to debate it opt for the man vs. nature strategy. That is to say, even the detractors acknowledge that the globe is warming up, but they disagree as to why. But if everyone agrees that the world is warming, how much energy is the planet actually receiving to cause this to happen?
The amount of energy needed to warm the entire world is no minor feat because heat is made up of energy. A very dramatic attempt was made to put it into context by scientists researching global temperature changes.
Scientists compared the earth's energy imbalance between 2005 and 2019. This contrasts the energy we can radiate with the energy we can absorb. In that time, the imbalance increased, and the extra energy the planet is absorbing is equivalent to four Hiroshima explosions taking place per second. This is actually just marginally better than the NASA climate scientist estimate from 2012, which stated that it was equivalent to 400,000 Hiroshimas every day.
- Power releases: 400,000 Hiroshimas
