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I don't think "it's a rounding error" is enough analysis here. A couple of meters of sea level rise, a couple of degrees temperature rise; these could be termed
by pbhjpbhj 5y ago
I don't think "it's a rounding error" is enough analysis here. A couple of meters of sea level rise, a couple of degrees temperature rise; these could be termed rounding errors.
- Retric 5y agoNot degrees, thousandths of a degree, so possibly something like a centimeter if sea level rise. Considering nuclear and fossil fuels directly release stored energy and solar increase albido this isn’t a 1:1 increase in energy. Further the earth radiates more energy from hot places than cool, still you can approximate it as something like: Black body radiation is temperature in kelvin to the 4th power. (285 * (170,017^0.25 / 170,000^0.25) - 285) is an increase of ~0.007 C / (whatever our current percentage of energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, or solar).
- anonporridge 5y agoIt's far less than the variance of direct solar irradiation hitting the Earth given varying differences in distance from the sun in the Earth's orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_constant#Solar_irradiance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_constant#Solar_irradianc... It looks like direct solar radiance is actually 173,000 TW plus or minus 6,000 TW.