Heat content in the world's oceans exceeds the previous year's levels by around 10 Zetta joules – equivalent to 100 times the electricity generation worldwide in 2021 – scientists
The research, published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, was based on observations from 24 scientists across institutes worldwide.
Heat content in the oceans exceeded the previous year's levels by around 10 Zetta joules — equivalent to 100 times the electricity generation worldwide in 2021, according to the authors. The climate crisis has increased surface temperatures across the planet, leading to atmospheric instability and amplifying extreme weather events such as storms.
This has wide-ranging implications because it affects the exchange of heat, oxygen and carbon between the ocean and atmosphere, with effects including a loss of oxygen in the ocean.
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