The Carbon Delay is allowing our civilization to move forward on the same trajectory we’ve been on for the past 100 years, seemingly oblivious to what the real, and irreversible, impact of climate change will be.

Perhaps the most tragic aspect of climate change is the Carbon Delay. This delay – measured in decades – occurs between the moment when the carbon (CO2) is released into the atmosphere, and before that added carbon increases the thermal energy enough to heat the Earth and alter the climate. The Carbon Delay is what has ironically allowed our civilization to – for the time being – remain on the same high growth, energy dependent, trajectory we’ve been on for the past 100 years. This means the extreme weather events we are now beginning to experience are the result of carbon released into the atmosphere decades ago.

The three events below each create what is called a self-reinforcing positive feed-back loop; the hotter the Earth becomes the faster these events heat the Earth; and the hotter the Earth gets, the faster these events occur, and so on.

• 95% of the excess heat is going directly into the oceans. It does not stay in the atmosphere where it would increase extreme weather events further.

• 72 calories of energy is needed to melt 1 gram of ice; ice only melts once. As the amount of ice decreases more and more heat is absorbed by the Earth

• As the atmosphere continues to heat up it can hold more moisture, this mean more cloud cover. Clouds trap the heat thus further heating the Earth.

The next three events serve to further increase the Carbon Delay.

• It takes decades for CO2 to rise up into the Troposphere.

• The Earth’s precession is trying to cool the Earth, while the added carbon in the atmosphere is trying to heat the Earth.

• Aerosols help reduce the impact of climate change; when/if the economy slows, the Earth will hear up faster.

By 2019 atmospheric carbon had increased 46% while the Earth’s temperature had increased only 5%. That means the Carbon Delay was a factor of 10. Once mankind stops putting carbon in the atmosphere, the Earth’s temperature will continue to increase – by a factor of 10 – until the Earth’s temperature reaches 81.4 F and the Carbon Ratio® is one.

All of the above information comes from well-established science previously determined by the scientific community.