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World Oceans Day 2022

June 7, 2022

Buckeyes! Get ready to celebrate World Oceans Day 2022!

Oceans are utilized in help sustaining life on Earth in critical ways.  However the climax is approaching.

An IPCC special report conducted in 2019 found that oceans, which contribute to 70% of the world's surface, has absorbed between 20% and 30% of human produced carbon dioxide since the 1980s.  Ocans have also inhabited 93% of heat from land, sea, air, and melted ice since the 1970s, per the Fifth Assessment report conducted in 2013 by the United Nations Interngovernmental Panel on Climate Change.