Sheldon Whitehouse: “Most of the excess heat that fossil fuel emissions cause…”

“And if you look, as I said before, at what's going on with the heat in the oceans, here's how that tracks. And the reason that the ocean heat tracks the CO2 concentration and the land heat material measures is because Most of the excess heat that fossil fuel emissions cause gets absorbed by the oceans. We would already be on an unlivable planet if it weren't for the oceans absorbing 90% of that excess heat. And the amount of heat that the oceans absorb is pretty astounding.” (04:36–04:56)

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