Mazing Amazingly

🕐 9 min read  |  🌍 Natural Wonders 🔒 Key Takeaways The rate of human-caused warming has risen from about 0.18C per decade across the 1970s-2000s to roughly 0.27C per decade over 2015-2024, according to the peer-reviewed Indicators of Global Climate Change assessment. Earth's energy imbalance — the extra heat absorbed versus radiated — has roughly doubled from about 0.6 watts per square metre in the 1990s to 1.3 W/m2 or more since 2010, with some recent annual CERES estimates near 1.9 W/m2. The World Meteorological Organization reported 2024 as the first calendar year in the 175-year instrumental record to average about 1.55C (±0.13C) above the 1850-1900 baseline, and 2015-2024 are the ten warmest years measured. Roughly 90% of trapped heat enters the ocean, and upper-2,000-metre ocean heat content set successive record highs in every year from 2017 through 2024. The remaining carbon budget for a 50% chance of holding 1.5C had shrunk to around 130 billion tonnes o...