Sentences with phrase «bomb detonations per»

We were at a rate of ~ 2 Hiroshima bomb detonations per second and since that so called pause we have move to 4 Hiroshima bomb detonations per second.

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.

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».

Only if you consider the equivalent of two Hiroshima bomb detonations per second «almost nothing» (Figure 2).

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).

Not exact matches

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