GLOBAL WARMING IS LARGE-SCALE THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a controversial and CO 2 freeexplanation to global warming and to show that global warming meansthat large-scale thermal energy storage. Global warming is here explainedby dissipation of heat from the global use of non-renewable energysources (fossil fuels and nuclear power). Resulting net heat is thusreleased into the atmosphere. A minor part of this heat is emittedto space as outgoing longwave radiation while the remaining is heatingthe Earth. Some of this heat is accumulated as sensible, i.e., byheating air, ground, and water. The rest is also stored as latentheat, i.e., in the form of vapor in the air and in the melting ofthe large ice fields of the planet.