Ocean heat content is our best measure of the impact of human activity on the climate; >90% of all heat trapped by greenhouse gases is absorbed by the oceans.
In 2021, we saw the warmest ocean heat content since records began, >400 billion trillion joules higher than the 1940s.
In 2021, we saw the warmest ocean heat content since records began, >400 billion trillion joules higher than the 1940s.
This is from the newly released dataset by @Lijing_Cheng and the Institute for Atmospheric Physics, though NOAA's ocean heat content record shows similar results: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
For more details on surface and atmospheric temperatures, ocean heat, sea level rise, atmospheric GHGs, sea ice, and other climate indicators in 2021 see our @CarbonBrief state of the climate analysis coming out in the next few days.
(newly updated dataset, that is; the IAP ocean heat content product is not new per se)
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