How energy technologies amplify sun-spot related climate variations

Ernest C. Njau

International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 2008, vol. 3, issue 3, 158-172

Abstract: The annual rate R(t) at which human activities emit (waste) heat energy into the surface-atmosphere system (SAS) has been steadily increasing with time since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Calculations show that R(t) will equal the annual rate at which solar energy is absorbed into the SAS at about the year 2143. It is established here that the anthropogenically generated (waste) heat energy enforces or amplifies the naturally existing SAS temperature oscillations and hence also the associated weather-related disasters. This enforcement or amplification applies also to the horizontal momentum vectors V(t) of wind patterns such as cyclones, the variation patterns K(t) of rain-fed floods, the variations X(t) of wind-driven coastward-moving ocean waves, and so on. It is implicit that continuation by humans of increasingly producing and using energy (however clean) at efficiencies less than 100% will reach a stage at which the Earth will be climatically uninhabitable. Thus, unless appropriate measures are taken to limit R(t), it is hereby recommended that designs of buildings and other civil structures should take into account factors representing influences due to V(t), K(t) and X(t) as safety precautions. Copyright , Manchester University Press.

Date: 2008
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