Keywords: Energy change inventory, 1971-2010.svg anthropogenic i e human greenhouse gases has been distributed on the Earth This is referred to as radiative imbalance where less energy leaves Earth's atmosphere than enters it Earth has been in radiative imbalance since at least the 1970s Most of this extra energy has been absorbed by the oceans Data The following data shows how the extra energy trapped mainly by anthropogenic greenhouse gases has been distributed on the Earth between 1971 and 2010 Oceans 93 Ice 3 Continents 3 Atmosphere 1 The biggest uncertainty is found in the energy invertory of the deep ocean more than 700 m due to a scarcity of data points The deep ocean accounts for 29 procent of the total extra energy trapped Further information can be found in the source listed in the references section References citation 2013-06-07 Rhein M et al Qin D and T Stocker Box 3 1 in Chapter 3 Observations Ocean final draft Climate Change 2013 The Physical Science Basis Working Group I Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC 5th Assessment Report http //www climatechange2013 org/images/uploads/WGIAR5_WGI-12Doc2b_FinalDraft_Chapter03 pdf http //www ipcc ch/report/ar5/wg1/ IPCC pp 11-12 pp 14-15 of PDF chapter 2013-10-25 own Enescot Change in total heat content of earth svg Comma-separated values In this graph the area of the circles is proportional to the sink's absorption of energy The radius of the circles equals the square root of area / Ï Data were exported from OpenOffice org 4 0 0 Calc as comma separated values csv The following options were used Character set Western Europe 1252 Field delimiter Text delimiter Quote all text cells no Save cell content as shown yes Fixed column width no <pre> Sink a area r radius d diameter Oceans 93 5 4408473067 10 8816946134 Ice 3 0 9772050238 1 9544100476 Continents 3 0 9772050238 1 9544100476 Atmosphere 1 0 5641895835 1 1283791671 </pre> cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard Global warming graphs |