{"id":1274,"date":"2012-02-06T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2012-02-06T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:28:08","slug":"nasa-human-activity-not-solar-activity-drives-global-warming-and-returning-to-350-ppm-is-needed-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/02\/nasa-human-activity-not-solar-activity-drives-global-warming-and-returning-to-350-ppm-is-needed-to-stop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA: Human Activity, Not Solar Activity, Drives Global Warming and Returning to 350 ppm Is Needed to Stop It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity \u2014 not changes in solar activity \u2014 are the primary force driving global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The study offers an updated calculation of the Earth\u2019s energy imbalance, the difference between the amount of solar energy absorbed by Earth\u2019s surface and the amount returned to space as heat. The researchers\u2019 calculations show that, despite unusually low solar activity between 2005 and 2010, the planet continued to absorb more energy than it returned to space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2012\/02\/05\/419064\/nasa-human-activity-not-solar-activity-drives-global-warming-350-ppm\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/619623main1_solar_irradiance_graph-670.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A graph of the sun\u2019s total solar irradiance shows that in recent years irradiance dipped to the lowest levels recorded during the satellite era. The resulting reduction in the amount of solar energy available to affect Earth\u2019s climate was about .25 Watts per square meter, less than half of Earth\u2019s total energy imbalance. (Credit: NASA\/James Hansen)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2012\/02\/05\/419064\/nasa-human-activity-not-solar-activity-drives-global-warming-350-ppm\/\">NASA: Human Activity, Not Solar Activity, Drives Global Warming and Returning to 350 ppm Is Needed to Stop It | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity \u2014 not changes in solar activity \u2014 are the primary force driving global warming. The study offers an updated calculation of the Earth\u2019s energy imbalance, the difference between the amount of solar energy absorbed by Earth\u2019s surface and the amount returned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22],"tags":[258,292,845],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}