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Did you take into account the warming of the oceans? They have 3 orders of magnitude more mass than air (1.37 × 10^21 kg vs 5.1480×10^18 kg), and take much more
by miltondts 5y ago
Did you take into account the warming of the oceans? They have 3 orders of magnitude more mass than air (1.37 × 10^21 kg vs 5.1480×10^18 kg), and take much more energy to heat per mass.
- midjji 5y agoI disregarded that 99% of the earth is melted i.e. not in yet in thermal equilibrium with its surroundings. Mostly because it does not matter. This is showing how large the greenhouse effect really is, about 74 degrees. That is how much heat the earth "traps", and while its getting warmer, its getting a degree or two warmer, not slowly ramping up from 4C to 78C. My point is more one of technical correctness. People keep thinking that the greenhouse effect is something new and strange, but without it the earth would be a snowball regardless of the about 0.5% increase we have affected so far, or the predicted 1% increase we will get in 30 years at current development. When people are saying the greenhouse effect has suddenly increased temperature by 1C they make people go what, that sounds strange and huge? if you say, the sum total of human activity in the world has had an 0.5% effect on the critical 74C atmosphere greenhouse property people generally go really, not more? The bad framing caused by shitty incorrect titles like the one linked is making the problem worse. Politicians arent saying our atmospheric impact on the greenhouse effect is insignificant so far, they are outright denying that the greenhouse effect exists. And they get away with it because of bad framing.