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23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules.
That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025.
A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use.
The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification