Record levels of heat were absorbed last year by Earth’s seas, which have been warming year-on-year for the past decade
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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/TinyDogsRule on 2024-01-11 21:20:24.

SS: We have all seem the scary graphs about ocean temperature and have made the jokes about the Y axis needing to expand, but what does all that info actually represent?

This article goes into some detail of what we are dealing with, but this paragraph gave me an Oh Shit moment:

In 2023, an additional 15 zettajoules of heat was taken up by the oceans, compared with 2022. By comparison, humanity uses about half a zettajoule of energy a year to fuel the entire global economy. In total, the oceans absorbed 287 zettajoules in 2023.

We are extremely fucked.

Collapse related because boiling oceans are problematic.