If the sea were 15ºC hotter, we’d get runaway hypercanes instead of hurricanes: ftp://texmex.mit.edu/pub/emanuel/PAPERS/hypercane95.pdf
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Replying to @Pinboard
This would only require about 21 billion megatons of TNT, according to my probably-wrong calculations.
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Replying to @Mongoose_Q
I get about 7.05375 x 10e19 joules to heat a disk of water 50 meters deep and 300 km across by 15 degrees C. 17 gigatons
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I just went with haeting the whole darn thing up, assuming ocean is 1.4e24 grams of water, needing 2.1e25 cal to heat 15C. 1 kt is 1e12 cal
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Replying to @Mongoose_Q
oh, no, you’re not making soup, after all. In the paper they say just an oceanic hot spot a few dozen km across is enough
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