How a record-high energy imbalance is driving global warming

The planet is heating up more quickly than ever before. For decades, greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity have been building up in the atmosphere and trapping ever-higher levels of heat. The resulting asymmetry between incoming solar energy and energy radiated back out into space – known as “Earth’s energy imbalance” – provides a direct measure of the extent to which humans are disrupting the Earth’s climate system. https://earthclimate.eu/2026/06/15/how-global-warming-is-being-caused-by-a-record-high-energy-imbalance/