To warm ourselves, cool ourselves, drive our cars, run our motors, push refrigerators, whatever it is that we're trying to do, the whole energy footprint of humankind on planet Earth is half a zetajoule. And The oceans, because of that excess fossil fuel emission, is absorbing more than 40 times that much [energy]. It is a huge magnifier effect. And that does things like drop the Antarctic ice shelf. And when Antarctic's ice mass shrinks, the ice that is on the land that goes into the water does what raises the sea level. (06:14–06:26)
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Asserts that oceans absorb over 40 times the energy humans consume due to fossil fuel emissions.
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