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I remember this article because I saw vlog brothers episode about it.
Tldr they changed the fuel for boats to be cleaner resulting in less cloud cover significantly allowing the oceans to heat up faster than ever before.
Maybe the molten core is boiling and slowly rising to the surface, resulting in increase of temperature.
The earth generally has an overall fixed rate at which it can radiate heat into space.
We dig up millions of years of stored solar energy and release it as heat.
I really don’t understand why people are surprised. Sure, it can get really complicated as you factor in varying cloud cover, solar output, greenhouse effect.
But long-term trend, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that every joule of energy we pull out of stored carbon, or even mass->energy via nuclear. We are generating more heat now than the earth is used to radiating out.
So obviously the average temperature is going to increase.
Even if we find ways to store the energy back, it takes energy to do so, and therefore more waste heat in the end.
If we want to cool the planet, we have to increase the rate that we radiate heat out into space.
If we want to cool the planet, we have to increase the rate that we radiate heat out into space.
Or generate less heat. Al La use less energy. As in downsize our oversized lifestyles. As in spend less money. As in go counter to capitalism.
Waste heat will eventually be a problem, but we’re far from the limit yet:
At present, the waste heat term is about four orders of magnitude smaller than the solar term. But at a growth factor of ten per century, they would reach parity in roughly 400 years. Indeed, the surface temperature of Earth would reach the boiling point of water (373 K) in just over 400 years under this relentless prescription. Clearly, extrapolating our recent — seemingly modest — 2.3% annual energy growth very far into the future quickly becomes ridiculous, and cannot happen.
This is not intended to suggest that waste heat is a bigger problem than, say, climate change from carbon dioxide emissions.
So that’s something we’re going to need to think about after getting greenhouse gas emissions under control.
This is not remotely why the planet is warming up lmao
It’s not because of the below, but that’s a neat B-movie plot along the same lines as The Core.
Weather you like it or not, we have a mountain of hard choices in front of us. And nobody seems willing to climate.
Seems like a pretty hot topic
You son of a bitch
I’m in 👉
Rick & Morty reference
It’s AI, cloud storage, and cellular internet. That’s a whole lot of microwave radiation and straight thermal radiation that didn’t exist ten years ago, and it’s growing fast. The additional heat build-up from our tech is outstripping our ability to compensate for it.
Please stop spreading misinformation. You’re on the internet. Kindly fact check yourself in the future. It’s better for everyone, including you!
Waste heat is a minor cause in global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions predominate, and it’s not close.
It’s probably the methane leaking from the poles that everyone has been saying will cause unexpected bullshit for decades
