• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1110252
Corpus ID: 10932559

Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications

@article{Hansen2005EarthsEI,
  title={Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications},
  author={J. Hansen and L. Nazarenko and R. Ruedy and M. Sato and J. Willis and A. D. Del Genio and D. Koch and A. Lacis and K. Lo and S. Menon and T. Novakov and J. Perlwitz and G. Russell and G. Schmidt and N. Tausnev},
  journal={Science},
  year={2005},
  volume={308},
  pages={1431 - 1435}
}

J. Hansen, L. Nazarenko, +12 authors N. Tausnev

Published 2005

Environmental Science, Medicine

Science

Our climate model, driven mainly by increasing human-made greenhouse gases and aerosols, among other forcings, calculates that Earth is now absorbing 0.85 ± 0.15 watts per square meter more energy from the Sun than it is emitting to space. This imbalance is confirmed by precise measurements of increasing ocean heat content over the past 10 years. Implications include (i) the expectation of additional global warming of about 0.6°C without further change of atmospheric composition; (ii) the… CONTINUE READING

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