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“Tampering can be dangerous. Nature can be vengeful. We should have a great deal of respect for the planet on which we live.” — Carl-Gustaf Rossby

But as the new study points out, 90% of the extra heat that our greenhouse gases trap is actually absorbed by the oceans. That means that the upper few meters of the sea have been steadily warming more than a tenth of a degree celsius per decade, a figure that’s accelerating. When you think of the volume of water that represents, and then try to imagine the energy necessary to raise its temperature, you get an idea of the blowtorch that our civilization has become. — Bill McKibben

The scale of ocean warming is truly staggering with the numbers so large that it is difficult for most people to comprehend. — Explaining Ocean Warming

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If there’s one simple fact about past Earth…