Comment by throwaway5752
16 hours ago
Plants and any organisms in photosynthesis-dependent food chains may have issues with modifying the degree of insolation.
Also, again, the Mediterranian is 1/100-1/200th of global ocean surface area. And we have melted a lot of ice cap/glacier mass. The latent heat of fusion of water is very large, also.
Long term, insolation and retention are important, but short term we are reaching the limits of the "Free Ride" portion of climate change where energy sinks absorb the additional delta created by the CO2 induced greenhouse effect.
edit: the tsar bomba was to try to make it tangible, as people don't understand these orders of magnitudes well.
The point is not that "we're not fucked" (we probably are pretty fucked). Just that Tsar Bomba yield, like basically any amount of energy directly generated by human endeavour, is a pretty irrelevant unit of energy when talking about the climate because they are on a completely different scale.