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Do you have a sense of what the % increase in total energy is? As in what is the denominator for the +300 terawatt hour figure?
by georgeglue1 4y ago
Do you have a sense of what the % increase in total energy is? As in what is the denominator for the +300 terawatt hour figure?
- djleni 4y agoYeah this stat is a bit confusing to me. Does this imply in preindustrial times the net energy was 0, or is this total energy and there’s some number not mentioned of loss?
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoMy understanding (I'm not a climate scientist) is that yes, net energy was zero over the "right" period of time (i.e. incoming energy from the sun balanced energy lost by radiating to space). The key technical term (IIUC) is "radiative forcing" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcing