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With global warming of just 1.2°C, why has the weather gotten so extreme?

14 pointsby makerofspoonsabout 2 years ago

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foxyvabout 2 years ago
When you tell someone that there is "Global Warming" people will inevitably ask "How much hotter?" When someone tells me that they are going to heat up a cup of water by 1.2C I'm like "Oh, that's not a big deal." However when you tell me you are going to heat up 5.1480×10^18 kg of air up by 1.2C you are talking about 100 times the energy used by the entire world in a year or 10 million megatons of TNT.
thaanpaaabout 2 years ago
1.2 C in the total volume of air = quadrillions of watts of heat energy. It's a giant engine revving up.