Earth Is Trapping Much More Heat than Climate Models Forecast—and the Rate Has Doubled in 20 Years

Earth’s Energy Imbalance Is More Than Double What It Should Be – And We Don’t Know Why

Only by phasing out fossil fuels immediately can this problem be fixed.

Earth's Energy Imbalance Has Doubled in 2 Decades, Study Warns

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time.

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast—and the rate has doubled in 20 years

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While this works well, natural variation can make it harder to see longer-term trends.

Earth is Trapping much more Heat than Climate Models Forecast – and the Rate has Doubled in 20 Years

By Steven Sherwood, UNSW Sydney; Benoit Meyssignac, Université de Toulouse, and Thorsten Mauritsen, Stockholm University (The Conversation) – How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While this works well, natural variation can make it harder to see longer-term trends. But another approach can give us a very clear sense of what’s going on: track how much heat enters E…

Earth is Absorbing Far More Heat Than Expected—It’s Happening Twice As Fast

In a startling revelation, recent research has shown that Earth’s energy imbalance—the difference between the heat Earth absorbs from the sun and the heat it radiates back into space—has more than doubled over the past two decades. This imbalance, which is key to understanding climate change, has significantly surpassed the predictions made by climate models, potentially indicating that the planet’s warming is accelerating. The Growing Energy Im…