Living In Bomb Time — 27

The time has come the Walrus said to talk of many things.

In this case, let’s talk about “HEAT”.

Snapshots of the changing world. June 1976, the last year the GMT was below the 0℃ baseline, and today.

I’m working on my next “Crisis Report”. I recently had an insight about how “ass-backwards” we think about the way CO2 works in heating the planet and I’m struggling with describing it.

While that simmers, let’s talk about HEAT.

FYI, this is going to be an “informal” piece. More stream of consciousness, just me going over stuff in my head, than my usual articles (the only other time I did this was during Covid TiGtbB-02). I’m going to “review the data” basically. So, feel free to skip the rest of this if it isn’t your cup of tea.

I want to start here.

500my of Earth’s climate history. A triumph of 20th century science.

I got a comment which made me realize how much information is encoded not in the data set, but in the axis of the graph itself. Specifically, the “Y” axis. More specifically, the temperature axis.