World’s Oceans Have Absorbed 90 Percent Of Energy From Climate Change In Last 150 Years
A century and a one-half of reconstructed data is helping scientist paint a picture of how much energy the Earth ’s oceans are absorb from human - made greenhouse gaseous state emission ( GHG ) and , as a result , how temperatures have changed since the 19th century . Estimates hint that from 1871 until now , global thawing of our oceans is at 436 x 10 ^ 21 Joules , which , if you ’re not a physical science yellowish brown , is more or less 1,000 sentence the amount of energy used by world every yr ....