CLIMATE & ENERGY The heat trapped by global warming equals 1 million Hiroshima bombs a day 1
“The radiative forcing of the CO2 we have already put in the atmosphere in the last century is … the equivalent in energy terms to almost half a billion Hiroshima bombs each year.”
“Radiative forcing” is the degree to which Earth is warmed by energy produced by the sun and trapped by our atmosphere. So if there were no warming going on due to gases in the atmosphere, primarily carbon dioxide, we’d have to set off almost half a billion Hiroshima bombs a year (1.3 million a day) to get an amount of warming equivalent to what’s happening now.
Ukrainian authorities say that the number of people who died of hypothermia in recent days has reached 30 as the country grapples with an unusually severe cold spell.
The Emergency Situations Ministry said on its website Tuesday that most of the victims were found frozen on the streets. On Monday officials put the death toll at 18 people.
Temperatures plunged to minus 23 C (minus 10 F) in the capital Kiev and elsewhere in Ukraine as schools and kindergartens closed and authorities set up hundreds of heated tents for the homeless.
h/t to Marc Morano
If that’s the case then we need detonate a few thousand more A-bombs by my house becasue I’m freezing.
1.3 million per day over 57 million square miles.
1 x 20kt bomb every 44 square miles. Every day.
I think we might have noticed. Maybe. If any of us were alive.
Of course, it’s only anthropogenic CO2 emissions that are responsible for this apparent catastrophe. These people need a new theme.
I am shocked every day by the insanity of the eco-freaks in their desperate attempt to resurrect the AGW hoax. So much taxpayer money is flowing to the phony scientists, on the take of the global warming hysteria, that it will be very difficult to turn the money spickett off. Many wasted careers would be lost but it must be done.
“The radiative forcing of the CO2 we have already put in the atmosphere in the last century is … the equivalent in energy terms to almost half a billion Hiroshima bombs each year.”
Then thank goodness for radiative forcing! Otherwise we’d either be glowing or frozen solid.
Lots of blue…hmmm, Grist says lots of bombs. I don’t see any bombs going off, so they must be invisible bombs that previously were going off in the deep ocean below Argos’s reach but now are going off in Europe. Invisibly. So Europe is gripped by nuclear winter. See I can do logic!
Um, I could be wrong. Lots of blue, hmm. Does it mean there is a
democraticDemocrat apocalypse going on in the EU and Russia? Democrats are blue are they not?Maybe Mims meant that Hansen’s super red crayon and temperature adjusting way-back machine has the same effect as 1 million Hiroshima bombs?
Nice comment!
It seems like there is a warmist raid on this site going on. They are barking up the wrong tree.
CLUCKING!
Chickens do not bark!
Although it may sometimes sound like a bark.
Roosters do crow so the sun will come up in the morning.
I am sure glad there are plenty of Roosters around to force the sun to rise each day!
All of those nuclear bombs going off and the weather isn’t even noticeably different than it was in 1899… amazing.