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Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second

60 points · 84 comments · blondie9x

  1. voxic11 · · focus · HN ↗
    To heat all the water in all the Earth's oceans by 1 degree Celsius it would require the energy equivalent of the detonation of roughly 87 billion Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.
    1. ricardobeat · · focus · HN ↗
      Then one of these is wrong. If this counter is at 4B, wouldn't we have evaporated 5% of the worlds oceans already?
      1. rozal · · focus · HN ↗
        he said - raise it by one degree, not evaporate
      2. mikestew · · focus · HN ↗
        “Evaporated“? I think you need to reread parent comment.
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