Article from January 2023. From “Watching the World Go Bye - Eliot Jacobson’s Collapse of Everything Blog.” He was featured yesterday for the graph of current Antarctic sea ice during winter being 6.5 sigma below recorded mean. (here: https://boingboing.net/2023/07/25/graph-reveals-terrifying-trend-of-antarctic-sea-ice-loss.html)
In this article he breaks down the metric of Hiroshima bombs per second as applied to energy added to atmospheric and oceanic climates due to human activity, concluding:
“Adding the last 20 years all up, we get total warming due to the EEI over the last 20 years equivalent to lighting off 4,250,000,000 (4.25 billion) Hiroshima nuclear bombs, of which about 3.8 billion went into heating the oceans.”
Having seen so many Hiroshima bombs explode, I know exactly how much this is.
Keep an eye out for meteors of 1,000 corgis or more in size that might head for the planet.