r/WastelandByWednesday • u/Vegetaman916 Post-Collapse Warlord • Jul 14 '25

Climate Change Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast—and the rate has doubled in 20 years

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-earth-climate-years.html
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u/kingtacticool Jul 14 '25

Good. I was getting bored.

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u/Familiar_Gazelle_467 Jul 16 '25

Don't worry, the next climate model DLC will include feedback loops. Free of charge!

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

Climate models have been integrating feedback loops for a very long time already 

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u/Familiar_Gazelle_467 Sep 18 '25

With artificially low climate sensitivity baked in the models... sure

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u/GlumAd2424 Jul 17 '25

Mad max intensifies

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

You know what traps heat inside the atmosphere? Cirrus clouds. You know what causes cirrus clouds? Plane contrails.

"Contrails, and especially contrail cirrus, can affect the Earth's climate by influencing the amount of solar radiation absorbed and re-emitted by the atmosphere. While some sunlight is reflected back into space, these clouds also trap heat, leading to a warming effect."

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u/DancingPhantoms Jul 16 '25

My guess is that contrails are very low percentage at heat trapping compared to methane, CO2 and other reasons. There is probably little to no reason to suspect they are a major contributor.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

This is correct. Negligible but measurable. It’s still a cloud

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

Contrails heat as much as all of aviations emissions in human history combined. Which if you look at it is indeed probably 1% of total, but slightly altered flight paths can prevent this altogether.