Earth's climate??

Question

According to this clock http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf , it takes 34 seconds for earth's temperature to rise 0.000000001 *C. How long would it take for earths temperature to rise 6 *C?

Answer 1

Why do you think climate is linear?

Answer 2

6/0.000000001x34sec

assuming your clock is correct.

Answer 3

Of course everyone forgets about latent heat.There are still heat sources/work that hasn't came to the surface yet and might not for another 10,000yrs.

Answer 4

If you assume the rate of temperature increase is constant (which is an incorrect assumption), it would take 204 billion seconds = 6,470 years.

Of course, that's a ridiculous value because the planet has warmed nearly 1 degree C over the past 100 years, and global warming is accelerating.  Are you sure you don't have too many zeroes in there?

Answer 5

I don`t care a bout the weather

Answer 6

Another example of junk science, the values given  are from a poor source, IPCC.  Although a wide range was given in the IPCC report. Everyone is gravitating to the high end of the possible range. This range is far from definite considering the vast number of variables inherent in global weather modeling.

It is simple math question otherwise.

Answer 7

The world will be a very different place at 6 deg increase. Definateley wont house the number of humans that exist on it now. The problem is agreeing on the facts of what is changing and what is the cause. Surely it is best to be cautious and try to accept that industry chasing pure proffit instead of analysing this problem is definateley a greedy wastefull ostrich with its head in the sand.