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The oceans absorbed an unfathomable amount of heat this decade

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Mashable

Publication Date
2019-12-19

That's because the sprawling seas — some 321,003,000 cubic miles of them — soak up over 90 percent of the heat trapped on Earth by human-created carbon emissions, which are still growing. This colossal heat absorption tempers the continued atmospheric warming of the remote, pale blue dot we inhabit.

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https://mashable.com/article/ocean-heat-content-rising-atomic-bomb/