Continuing Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) confirms James Hansen work

A climate research group CICERO from Oslo Norway (Center for International Climate Research) recently published a paper showing that the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) has increased significantly from 2001 to now, and attributes this increase to reduction of sulphur emissions. This paper importantly confirms the recent work and letters of James Hansen and his research team. New paper press release: Cleanup of air pollution heats the Earth https://cicero.oslo.no/en/articles/cleanup-of-air-pollution-heats-the-earth “Recent reductions in emissions of tiny particles, the major cause of air pollution globally, have led to more heat in the Earth’s climate system. This is shown in a new international study led by CICERO and published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment.” “Satellite measurements clearly show that more heat is entering the Earth’s atmosphere from the Sun compared to the amount of terrestrial energy escaping to space. This so-called Earth energy imbalance leads to accumulation of heat and warming of the Earth’s surface. It is well known that man-made emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have been the major cause of global warming in recent decades, and that emissions of particles have masked part of this warming. Most of the particles, especially sulphate, reflect sunlight and therefore act to cool the planet. In the last couple of decades, however, this cooling effect has reversed and now contributes to a warming due to extensive measures to improve air quality in many regions worldwide.” Peer-reviewed scientific paper: Recent reductions in aerosol emissions have increased Earth’s energy imbalance https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01324-8.pdf “Abstract The Earth’s energy imbalance is the net radiative flux at the top-of-atmosphere. Climate model simulations suggest that the observed positive imbalance trend in the previous two decades is inconsistent with internal variability alone and caused by anthropogenic forcing and the resulting climate system response. Here, we investigate anthropogenic contributions to the imbalance trend using climate models forced with observed sea-surface temperatures. We find that the effective radiative forcing due to anthropogenic aerosol emission reductions has led to a 0.2 ± 0.1 W m−2 decade−1 strengthening of the 2001–2019 imbalance trend. The multi-model ensemble reproduces the observed imbalance trend of 0.47 ± 0.17 W m−2 decade−1 but with 10-40% underestimation. With most future scenarios showing further rapid reductions of aerosol emissions due to air quality legislation, such emission reductions may continue to strengthen Earth’s energy imbalance, on top of the greenhouse gas contribution. Consequently, we may expect an accelerated surface temperature warming in this decade.” Please donate to http://PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos joining the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.

Dr. James E. Hansen in Conversation with Paul Beckwith