Scientists have concluded more energy is being absorbed from the sun than is emitted back to space, throwing the Earth's energy "out of balance" and warming the globe. Scientists from NASA, Columbia University, New York, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif. used satellites, data from buoys and computer models to study the Earth's oceans. They confirmed the energy imbalance by using precise measurements of increasing ocean heat content over the past 10 years. The study reveals Earth's energy imbalance is large by standards of the planet's history. The imbalance is 0.85 watts per meter squared. That will cause an additional warming of 0.6 degrees Celsius (1 degree Fahrenheit) by the end of this century.To understand the difference, think of a one-watt light bulb shining over an area of one square meter (10.76 square feet). Although it doesn't seem like much, adding up the number of feet around the world creates a big effect. To put this number into perspective, an imbalance of one-watt per square meter, maintained for the past 10,000 years is enough to melt ice equivalent to one kilometer (.6 mile) of sea level, if there were that much ice."The energy imbalance is an expected consequence of increasing atmospheric pollution, especially carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and black carbon particles. These pollutants block the Earth's heat radiation from escaping to space, and they increase absorption of sunlight," said Jim Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York. He is the lead author of the new study, which is in this week's Science Magazine Science Express.
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Storms are a way of correcting atmosphic inbalance. Tornadoes, Hurricanes and winter weather. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, how clear is the air and sky after a snow storm? 
Never seen a deep bluer sky. Seems the global warming is something that is a cycle of nature and although the Sun is a little hotter and older than it was the last Ice Age, I think Earth itself has the ability to correct the imbalance. After all, Earth made it this far, and humans have not perturbed the climate that much. Volcanos, El Nino and other weather patterns play more of a threat than what Humans do. Let's just sit back, enjoy the warmer climate and be ready for the worst. 
would be nice to grow tomatoes in JANUARY outside in Ohio! 
Another doomsday prediction? Geez do scientist have anything better to do then to tell us one day we will be screwed?
