ICN Sunday Morning: Earth’s Energy Imbalance

Go behind the scenes with senior editor Corey Mitchell and reporter Bob Berwyn as they discuss critical measures of the planet’s health.“Earth is being pushed beyond its limits while every key climate indicator is flashing red,” warned U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres after the release of the latest State of the Global Climate report from the World Meteorological Organization. The report highlights the significance of record-high concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and notes that the effects are visible everywhere, from the 11-year series of hottest-ever years to the way heat is accumulating deep in the oceans. And for the first time, it adds a new measure to the list of key climate indicators: Earth’s energy imbalance, which tracks the gap between the solar energy entering our atmosphere and the heat escaping back into space.Bob, who covers climate science for Inside Climate News, explains the real-world impacts of the energy imbalance, as well as melting glaciers, sea level rise, and pollution from unregulated space activity; and the disconnect between scientific knowledge and political action today.Read the story: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23...Explore ICN’s reporting on climate science: https://insideclimatenews.org/categor...Subscribe to the ICN Sunday Morning newsletter: https://insideclimatenews.org/newslet... Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate