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Living in Bomb Time — Ep. 07
There’s a lot of confusion about how to describe the impact of what climate change is doing to the planet.
Here’s a simple way to visualize it.
There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year
The amount of energy accumulating in the oceans is equivalent to detonating roughly five Hiroshima atomic bombs per second, every second.
Our climate has accumulated the equivalent of a total of more than 3.6 billion Hiroshima bombs’ worth of heat since 1995.
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A billion seconds is 31.7 years. In just 7 more years we will have added over 5 billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heat energy to the world’s climate system.
Scientists estimate that the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs was as powerful as 10 billion Hiroshima bombs.
By the end of this decade, we will have added heat energy equivalent to half of the dinosaur killer asteroid to our climate system.
Because about 35% of the CO2 we have dumped into the atmosphere was put there in the last 20 years, the rate that the planet is warming is…
