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> we probably are warming the world with all of our machines

Probably very little compared to GH gases contribution, see here: http://skepticalscience.com/waste-heat-global-warming.htm

There is a lot of energy coming to the Earth in the form of sunlight. We could power world economy with it many times over.



It is relatively little, but it's actually something like 6%. The rate of change of the Earth's heat content is something like 250TW (on average); humans are currently using/generating around 16TW of energy.

For comparison, the Earth's fiery core is about 45TW of radioactive decay and sunlight hitting Earth is about 173PW.

Of course, we've historically increased our energy use by around 5% per year, so if that trend held (which you should expect about as much as any other exponential trend holding...), in about 50 years waste heat would begin outweighing greenhouse gasses.


Note that the greenhouse gases you mention are generated so we can run our machines.


I am not sure I follow - this is what AGW theory is saying, that humans cause global warming by running civilization on carbon fuels.

I just wanted to address possibly wrong belief of GP that waste heat can be the primary cause of GW.


And a lot leaving via infra-red radiation, unless of course you trap it somehow.




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