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.
aspragg@rahmstorf Yeah, I'm struggling to understand why it's "bleaker" that the oceans have a higher heat capacity than the atmosphere? Or if it's only the case "at present" that "humans and other life forms on the surface directly suffer only a small fraction of that energy", how is this expected to change in the future? And why?