Zack Labe16h ago

The World Meteorological Organization report on the State of the Global Climate 2025 was released today:

"Earth's energy imbalance has been growing since the 1960s, reaching a record high in 2025."

"Extreme weather impacts millions and costs billions."

Press release: https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/earths-climate-swings-increasingly-out-of-balance

Show threadJonathan Hartley
For curious drive-by readers like me, the
"Earth's Energy Imbalance" is a newly adopted eighth key indicator of the WMO's latest 2025 report. The imbalance is the rate of the Earth's net energy gain over time, i.e. the difference between incoming sunlight vs heat loss to space. In recent decades, this quantity has been increasingly positive, as human produced greenhouse gases cause heat to be trapped within the atmosphere, oceans, and landmasses of the planet. cc @ZLabe
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Show threadJonathan Hartley14h ago
@ZLabe This makes the energy imbalance a useful overview, summarizing other key indicators such as near-surface temperatures, ocean temperatures, and sea ice retreat, into a legible single value.
Show threadDuhadu12h ago
@tartley
Thank you