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Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco

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Cloudflare blocked me from accessing it. edit: wow, that was some unexpected downvotes

It's just completely irrelevant to the article. Would you have posted a comment if your ISP was down?

If my ISP was hosting the page, sure. The article is the thing. And if you can't read the article due to false positives around how the article is hosted, how in the hell is that irrelevant? "I got mine, screw you." is a disappointing lifestyle choice.

Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Adding energy to the system Best estimates I've found to date: [ EDIT: 0.6-0.8 ] * Petawatts * of extra energy circulating in the atmosphere as a result of anthropogenic changes to radiative forcing. EDIT: For the people downvoting this because "watts are units of power not energy", please read the Wikipedia page on radiative forcing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_forcing For the people downvoting because…

> 0.6-0.8 * Petawatts * of extra energy circulating What is that as a percentage of total energy circulating? The number by itself is meaningless - the Earth is large, it has a lot of energy, that's not news.

I can't find reliable, straightforward numbers for the total amount of energy in the atmosphere. Reddit provides one pretty believable number of the amount of energy required to raise the atmospheric temperature by 1C: 3.7x10^21 J [0]

Taking my main source's figure for the number of calories per hour that we're adding (2x10^17 calories aka 4x10^17 joules), that suggests that we are causing enough extra heat to be retained to raise the atmospheric temperature 1C every 9000 hours or roughly every year.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/16c167g/req...

Re: Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco

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That's not true. For instance: https://www.weather.gov/ffc/pop#:~:text=What%20does%20this%2... .

Ah ok it must be a Canadian thing, then: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services... .

It's the inherent confusion and misunderstanding that I mean :)
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