Category : Climate Change | Location : International | Posted on 2022-10-27 00:25:51
The rate at which oceans are globally warming has doubled from the 1960s to the 2010s, a recent study has found. The top 2,000 metres of the global ocean has gained 351 zettajoules during 1958-2019. For context, a zettajoule is 10 to the power of 21 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules.
As humans emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, it causes the Earth to warm. The vast majority of the heat ends up in the ocean (more than 90 per cent). So, to understand how fast the Earth’s climate is changing, we must look to the ocean and track ocean heat content change.
