Mangled Analogy

“By a conservative estimate, current concentrations [of greenhouse gases] are trapping an extra amount of energy equivalent to 400,000 Hiroshima bombs exploding across the face of the earth every day,” according to Justin Gillis writing for the New York Times

This is a rather inapt comparison because a nuclear bomb releases energy over an astonishingly short time time scale, in a concentrated area, and leaves its surroundings drastically altered. It’s effects are not incremental, not continuously distributed through the day, nor distributed across the entire face of the planet.