Bill Weir: ‘Every Second of Every Day Our Planet Absorbs as Much Heat as Ten Hiroshima-Sized Atomic Bombs’

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WEIR: "I am afraid to say that seems to be the case. It’s not that the planet is going to re-freeze anytime soon. A lot of this is baked in after a century of industrialization now, and right now scientists estimate that every second of every day our planet absorbs as much heat as 10 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. The oceans have held most of that in our lifetimes right now, about 90 percent of that, so you don't notice it as much, but now we are seeing these heat blobs all around the world, the ones we just talked about in the southwest there, which have been holding for weeks, almost 40 days, with these major warnings as well. And the superlatives, you talk to scientists who spend their lives looking at these numbers and seeing records broken by maybe half a degree, seeing ocean temperatures broken by five degrees, are just gobsmacked by it. Bonkers are some of the quotes they said. That’s the 38 days. 1,500 record-high temperatures set just in the United States in the last couple of days, over 3,500 globally, and about 80 million under heat alerts in 14 states right now."