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The World Accumulated 16 Zetajoules of Additional Heat in Its Oceans in 2021.
The article is open sourced apparently: Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Trenberth, K.E. et al. Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions. Adv. Atmos. Sci. (2022).
A Zetajoule is 10^21 Joules.
For reference, all of the energy produced by humanity in 2020 amounted to 584 Exajoules, 584 X 10^18 Joules.
The full paper is not available as HTML text, but can be downloaded as a PDF file.
This is very bad news, but don't worry, be happy.
Watch car ads showing wind turbines and electric cars, and virgin wilderness turned into huge solar arrays. Then you'll feel better. All of this hype isn't doing shit to address climate change, but pretend that it is. You'll feel better.
