"The study, which was published Friday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Science, found that the world's oceans absorbed an additional 23 zettajoules' worth of heat in 2025, the most in any year since modern measurements began in the 1960s. That's significantly higher than the 16 additional zettajoules they absorbed in 2024. The research comes from a team of more than 50 scientists across the United States, Europe, and China."
"John Abraham, a professor of thermal science at the University of St. Thomas and one of the authors on the paper, says that he sometimes has trouble putting this number into contexts that laypeople understand. Abraham offers up a couple options. His favorite is comparing the energy stored in the ocean to the energy of atomic bombs: The 2025 warming, he says, is the energetic equivalent to 12 Hiroshima bombs exploding in the ocean."
In 2025 the world's oceans absorbed an additional 23 zettajoules of heat, a record high since modern measurements began in the 1960s. This amount exceeds the 16 zettajoules absorbed in 2024 and marks the eighth consecutive year of increasing ocean heat uptake. Oceans act as the planet's largest heat sink and absorb more than 90 percent of excess warming. A zettajoule equals one sextillion joules, so 23 zettajoules is 23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That energy is roughly equivalent to 12 Hiroshima bombs detonating in the ocean, boiling two billion Olympic pools, or over 200 times global electricity use.
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