2025/05/10 by Thorsten Mauritsen, Yoko Tsushima, Benoît Meyssignac +54 · 6 voices · 29 citations
Energy · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrobiology #Astronomy #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Earth (classical element) #Earth science #Economics #Energy (signal processing) #Environmental science #Geology #Global Energy and Sustainability Research #Natural resource economics #Physics #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1029/2024av001636
published in AGU Advances 6(3) (Wiley)
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Abstract Global warming results from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions which upset the delicate balance between the incoming sunlight, and the reflected and emitted radiation from Earth. The imbalance leads to energy accumulation in the atmosphere, oceans and land, and melting of the cryosphere, resulting in increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, and more extreme weather around the globe. Despite the fundamental role of the energy imbalance in regulating the climate system, as known to humanity for more than two centuries, our capacity to observe it is rapidly deteriorating as satellites are being decommissioned.