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"The earth just lived through its hottest month on record—but if we didn’t have the power of the oceans on our side, things could have been even more catastrophic. Since the 1970s, the world’s #oceans have absorbed 93 percent of the excess #heat in the atmosphere generated by burning #FossilFuels and about one-third of the #CarbonDioxide emissions released into the atmosphere.

"Regina Rodrigues, a professor of physical oceanography and climate at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil, specializes in marine #heatwaves. Oceans, she told me, act as a buffer against the most #ExtremeHeat for those of us on land.

"'If the ocean wasn’t absorbing this excess heat, we would be in a much worse situation,' Rodrigues said. 'It’s great for us, but all of this comes at a price.' That price is a steady increase in sea surface temperatures: The world’s oceans have warmed by around 0.13 degrees Celsius (0.23 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade over the past 100 years."