Global warming: we need to understand the energy imbalance

Planet Earth is warming due to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This creates an energetic imbalance in the atmospheric top from the name energy imbalance from the earth. A new recent study advises learning more about the Earth’s energetic imbalance to measure the effects of climate change.

Author and scholar Kevin Trenberth, along with climate scientist and co-author Lijing Cheng, conducted a further inventory. It is complete with all the excess heat sources on Earth. They studied the energetic changes of the atmosphere, ocean, land and ice as components of climate. Then to find the imbalance, they were compared to the radiation in the upper part of the Earth’s atmosphere.

The net energy imbalance is calculated by looking at how much heat is absorbed by the sun and how much it can radiate into space. It is not yet possible to directly measure the imbalance; the only practical way to estimate this is through an inventory of energy changes.

Kevin Trenberth, author of the study

To understand the climate catastrophe, one must first understand the net energy gain of the climate from all sources examined. The amount of extra energy and its distribution on the planet must also be understood. Excess energy directly increases the frequency or intensity of extreme natural disasters. This one extreme events they provide an energy shift by helping the climate to spread energy into space with a major impact on global warming. Studies have shown that 93% of the excess heat due to imbalance is absorbed by the seas. This raises their temperature and level.

Modeling the Earth’s energetic imbalance is challenging and the relevant observations and their synthesis need to be improved. Understanding how all forms of energy are distributed around the world and stored or radiated into space will give us a better understanding of our future.

Lijing Cheng, study co-author