On the recordMay 15, 2023
The scale of this is really pretty staggering. The figure I use is zeta joules, the joule being the unit of measure of heat energy, zeta being a number that has 21 zeroes behind it.
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Whitehouse emphasizes the alarming scale of ocean heat absorption.
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