Sentences with phrase «atomic bomb detonations»

In addition to this rapid surface warming, the global oceans have also been accumulating heat at an incredible rate - the equivalent of more than two Hiroshima «Little Boy» atomic bomb detonations per second, every second over a the past half century.

The ocean measurements quite clearly show that global warming continues at a rapid rate, equivalent to 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second.

This heating amounts to 136 trillion Joules per second (Watts), which as Glenn Tramblyn noted in a previous post, is the equivalent of more than two Hiroshima «Little Boy» atomic bomb detonations per second, every second over a 55 - year period.

When the warming of the Earth's entire climate system is considered, global warming continues to rise at a rate equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second, faster over the past 15 years than the prior 15 years.

The latter number is equivalent to 4.5 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second — a far cry from a global warming «pause».

Take a moment to visualize 4 atomic bomb detonations happening every single second.

For 2004 — 2011, they find the oceans accumulating 0.56 W / m2 (9x1021 J / yr) in the upper 1,800 meters — equivalent to 4.5 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second — during a time when many have argued that global warming has magically «paused».

However, given that the overall warming or heating of the planet continues at a rate equivalent to 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second, this framing of the issue is clearly inaccurate and misleading.

The heating trend since 2003 in the upper 700 meters of oceans is equivalent to nearly 1 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonation per second (plus another 3 per second in the deep oceans).

So, how do we come up with 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonation equivalents per second from this data?

Not exact matches

On the other hand, estimates put the North Korean alleged H - bomb detonation in just six kilotons, a poorer result than the 2013 atomic test.

In fact, a rehearsal for Trinity — America's first atomic bomb test detonation — was conducted on May 7, 1945, the very day that Germany surrendered.

The Atomic Age kicked off with a bang on July 16, 1945, with the detonation of a test uranium fission bomb at the Alamogordo Test Range in the New Mexico desert, during what's known as the «Golden Age» of comic books and strips.

This filmic gesture echoes the detonation of an atomic bomb.

If we can consider the detonation of the atomic bomb as having unleashed the potential in painting for the frenzied energy of a Pollock, then the exploration of outer space paralleled Fontana's piercing the canvas to explore what he called «fourth - dimensional space».

By the standards of 45 - year - old artist Damien Hirst, the work, titled «I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds» — a line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita quoted by Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer after watching the test detonation of the first atomic bomb — is not particularly shocking.

The yield of the Hiroshima atomic bomb was 6.3 x 1013 Joules, hence the rate of global heat accumulation is equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima bomb detonations per second.