A planet that no longer returns what arrives

Ocean surface temperature at record high. Earth's reflectivity declining. The rate of additional energy the planet retains more than doubled since 2000. The previous reading in this archive named the planetary heat mismatch and admitted the container was too small; this week the measurement itself moved — from how hot it is, to how much of what arrives now stays. That is not a change in a variable. It is a change in the planet's relationship to light. This exceeds the net, and the honest thing ...