On Jun 27, 12:24 pm, Roger Coppock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In 2006, Man's Greenhouse Gases Added 340 Megatons a Day
>
> The US NOAA just published the Annual Greenhouse Gas Index,
> or AGGI, for 2006. (It's about time! 2007 is half over.) These
> figures track 5 major and 10 minor anthropogenic greenhouse
> gases. During 2006, and increase of 0.032 Watts of energy
Nitpicking perhaps, but the Watt is a unit of power, not energy.
> were not radiated to space for every square meter of the Earth's
> surface. This increase, primarily due to the additions of the
> gases CO2 and N2O into our planet's atmosphere, is the energy
> equivalent of 340 million tons of TNT every day.
> (The calculation is below.)
>
> The NOAA AGGI page is here:http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/
>
> For a graph of the yearly concentrations of the 5 major
> anthropogenic greenhouse gases since 1979, please
> see:http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/aggi_fig2.png
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=
> -- Please see table 2 at:http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/
> -- The added forcing is the 2006 total forcing minus the 2005 forcing.
> TotalForcing = 2.665 - 2.633
> TotalForcing:0.032
>
> ---- Radiative Forcings in Megatons TNT
>
> -- The diameter of the Earth is ~12756000 M.
> -- Please see:http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/special/earth.htm
> ERadius = 12756000/2
> ERadius:6.38e+06
>
> -- The surface area of the Earth is
> EArea = 4*π*ERadius^2
> EArea:5.11e+14
>
> -- The energy of 1 Megaton of TNT = 1.16111E12 Watt Hours. Please
> see:
> --http://www.efunda.com/units/convert_units.cfm?
> mode=long&From=340&InputValue=1
> MegatonsPerWattHour = 1.16111E12
No, your mean WattHoursPerMegaton, above and hereafter.
> MegatonsPerWattHour:1.16e+12
>
> GlobalWarmingMegatonsHour=EArea*TotalForcing/MegatonsPerWattHour
> GlobalWarmingMegatonsHour:14.1
> GlobalWarmingMegatonsDay = GlobalWarmingMegatonsHour*24
> GlobalWarmingMegatonsDay:338
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