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I don't think "it's a rounding error" is enough analysis here. A couple of meters of sea level rise, a couple of degrees temperature rise; these could be termed rounding errors.


Not degrees, thousandths of a degree, so possibly something like a centimeter if sea level rise.

Considering nuclear and fossil fuels directly release stored energy and solar increase albido this isn’t a 1:1 increase in energy. Further the earth radiates more energy from hot places than cool, still you can approximate it as something like:

Black body radiation is temperature in kelvin to the 4th power. (285 * (170,017^0.25 / 170,000^0.25) - 285) is an increase of ~0.007 C / (whatever our current percentage of energy from fossil fuels, nuclear, or solar).


It's far less than the variance of direct solar irradiation hitting the Earth given varying differences in distance from the sun in the Earth's orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_constant#Solar_irradianc...

It looks like direct solar radiance is actually 173,000 TW plus or minus 6,000 TW.




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