Quark Soup by David Appell: Your Hourly Emissions Will Trap an Atomic Bomb's Worth of Heat
The CO2 emissions you emit in the next hour will trap over an atomic bomb's worth of heat.
...In other terms, that year's worth of one person's emissions will trap as much energy as impinges on the Earth in 5 seconds.
It's as much energy as all of human civilization consumes in 15 hours. (1 "Civ" = 474 exajoules (2008)).
Last year the world's emissions were 31.6 gigatons of CO2, from fossil fuel consumption. That will trap 24 trillion Hiros, or 3.1 million Civs, or 269 year's worth of the sunlight that hits Earth.
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And, of course, David has the math that shows this energy is, in fact, "trapped?"
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