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Prof. Stefan RahmstorfEvery responsible decision maker in politics, industry etc. should read this. Or better yet the original WMO report it’s about (linked in the article).
And then think very seriously:
What am I doing to stop this?
Is it enough?
How do I want to be remembered?
A note about the fact that 91% of the energy warming the Earth is taken up by the oceans and only 1% by the atmosphere: that simply is because the heat capacity of water is so much larger than that of air, so it takes far more energy to warm the oceans. Temperature is rising less in the oceans than in the atmosphere, and mostly in the upper layers.
Thoralf Will 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼@rahmstorf Probably very naive and unscientific question:
Could the global warming possibly trigger a stronger water exchange in the oceans?
Meaning: Could the stronger heating of the upper layers cause a stronger exchange with the lower levels due to some effect that I do not know about/understand or will the layers stay pretty much segregated?
Background: That could have (at least) 2 effects:
1. Devastating warming of lower levels in the oceans
2. Slowing the climate change
Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru@thoralf @rahmstorf In that direction I'd also love to know whether watching deeper layers could increase sea level rise through additional dilation.
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@rahmstorf If any humans survive this madness at all, they will be living in a damaged world which doesn't support large population and civilisations, only small tribes. And they will be telling gruesome tales of the Machine Men who tried to live outside the real world in a fake one they built, until the fake world had eaten almost all of the real world and fell apart.