HOW
MUCH WARMING IS THERE NOW?
Sam
Carana, via Facebook
According
to NOAA's calculations, we're currently at 500 CO₂e. NOAA adds:
"Because we seek an index that is accurate, only direct forcing
from these gases has been included. Model-dependent feedbacks, for
example, due to water vapor and ozone depletion, are not included.
Other spatially heterogeneous, short-lived, climate forcing agents,
such as aerosols and tropospheric ozone, have uncertain global
magnitudes and also are not included here to maintain accuracy."
How
much warming do you think there is, when including all feedbacks,
indirect effects and further warming elements?
This
appeared in comments
NOAA
includes 5 major gases (CO₂, CH₄, N₂O, CFC-12 and CFC-11) and
15 halogenated gases (CFC-113, CCl₄, CH₃CCl₃, HCFCs 22, 141b
and 142b, HFCs 134a, 152a, 23, 143a, and 125, SF₆, and halons 1211,
1301 and 2402).
The figure of 500 CO₂e is arrived at when taking
NOAA's column for total CO₂e in Table 2, which goes up to 2017, and
extending this by means of a linear trend, as in attached image.
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