The Earth's Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity

A chapter of the IPCC's 2021 Working Group I report on Earth's energy budget, climate feedbacks, and climate sensitivity. Both papers cite it for the waste-heat cap: adding about 2% of absorbed sunlight, some 50,000 times 2025's data-center power, would warm the planet by about 4 K. This sets the Earth-bound limit in premise 3 of the long arc (C3).

Cited in

both papers (Flagship: Fig. 5; Companion §11, Fig. 10)

Used for

C3C3 premise 3; Flagship Fig. 5d; Companion Fig. 10b

Strand

Compute, energy & the physics of information · Energy, data centres & compute supply

Cite

@techreport{forster2021earth,
  title = {The Earth's Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity},
  author = {P. Forster and T. Storelvmo and K. Armour and W. Collins and J.-L. Dufresne and D. Frame and D. J. Lunt and T. Mauritsen and M. D. Palmer and M. Watanabe and et al.},
  year = {2021},
  howpublished = {Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press},
  doi = {10.1017/9781009157896.009},
}