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The temperature of Earth's surface, depends upon two relatively easy to measure parameters, energy coming in from the sun, and energy emitted by the Earth's surface and atmosphere.
NASA has a set of satellites measuring these parameters.
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#ResistanceEarth
The temperature of Earth's surface, depends upon two relatively easy to measure parameters, energy coming in from the sun, and energy emitted by the Earth's surface and atmosphere.
NASA has a set of satellites measuring these parameters.
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The "easy" one is incoming solar energy- that varies slightly over the course of the entire series and as represented here was (as measured at top of atmosphere) 340.185W/M² + 0.058% / - 0.043%.
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The change in upwelling IR emitted by our surface, oceans, ice, & atmosphere is profoundly changed- the atmosphere is retaining an additional 0.33W/M² per decade, during the satellite's run. That's ~ an additional 1/1000th of the sun's energy being "held back" / decade
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This leads us to the imbalance chart- We didn't start at "zero" we already had an imbalance before 2001, that's "global warming". This shows the accelerated rate of the imbalance. ~90% of the energy is warming our oceans & melting global ice- only roughly 2% warms the air.
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