{"id":534540,"date":"2010-04-19T09:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T13:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2010-04-19T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T13:15:23","slug":"the-difficulty-of-balancing-earth%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98energy-budget%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534540","title":{"rendered":"The difficulty of balancing Earth\u2019s \u2018energy budget\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Times:<\/a> Greenhouse gases emitted by human activities help trap more heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, warming the planet. But a new analysis warns that scientists don’t fully understand where all that heat is going.<\/p>\n

They can’t explain where about half the heat that has built up on Earth in recent years <\/a>has gone, warn Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo, researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.<\/p>\n

That inability to balance the Earth’s “energy budget” will make it harder to weigh the merits of policies to fight climate change and determine which natural events are driven by warming, the pair say in a “Perspectives” essay published in the latest issue of the journal Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Researchers are able to track overall changes in the amount of energy coming in and out of the Earth’s atmosphere using satellites. They know that the amount of energy coming to Earth outweighs the amount leaving — and the leftover energy is driving global warming.<\/p>\n

But the problem, according to Trenberth and Fasullo, is that researchers have trouble pinpointing which parts of the Earth are storing heat.<\/p>\n

The planet’s oceans absorb about 90 percent of incoming energy in the form of heat, but measurements collected between 2004 and 2008 show that the rate at which oceans are absorbing heat is slowing, even as emissions of heat-trapping gases have risen<\/p>\n

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New York Times: Greenhouse gases emitted by human activities help trap more heat in the Earth’s atmosphere, warming the planet. But a new analysis warns that scientists don’t fully understand where all that heat is going. They can’t explain where about half the heat that has built up on Earth in recent years has gone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}