An international team of climatologists said that in 2022 the world's oceans, the main brake on climate change, broke their own record for the amount of heat absorbed. In particular, the amount of stored heat in its upper layers reached a record high of 255 zettajoules. According to scientists, this is 10.9 zettajoule more than it was two years earlier.
As it is spoken in magazine Advances in Academic Science, research was carried out by experts of Institute of atmospheric physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. According to their data, waters of the world ocean absorb about 90% of heat and about 30% of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere. Having studied the process of heat accumulation by the ocean waters, the scientists stated that last year it absorbed 10.9 zettajoule of energy. That's almost 1.5 times more than it has over the past 40 years.
The accumulation of heat in the ocean will not only warm the ocean, but also redistribute salt reserves in its waters, scientists believe. This will lead to changes in currents in the world's oceans and inevitable climatic changes, experts believe.