Sentences with phrase «absorb additional emissions»

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These emissions have caused the Earth's surface temperature to rise, and the oceans absorb about 80 percent of this additional heat.

Over the last ten years, one - fourth of human - emissions of carbon dioxide as well as 90 percent of additional warming due to the greenhouse effect have been absorbed by the oceans.

The oceans have absorbed 97 percent of the additional heat from those emissions, which is the only reason global temperatures have not risen much faster.