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Princeton University

Resplandy Ocean

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Princeton and Scripps researchers report that the world's oceans absorbed more than 13 zettajoules -- which is a joule, the standard unit of energy, followed by 21 zeroes -- of heat energy each year between 1991 and 2016. That's 150 times more heat energy each year than the energy humans produce as electricity annually. The estimate is 60 percent higher than that used in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report.

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Photo by Abigale Wyatt, Princeton Department of Geosciences

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