Quote of the Day (David Wallace-Wells, on Global Warming’s Impact on the Oceans)

“More than 90 percent of all the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere by the greenhouse effect goes into the oceans, and while climate-conscious humans may regard this as a lucky break for life on land, the math implies a different and less narcissistic emphasis: that the planet’s water, home also to a majority of its life, has absorbed nine times as much global warming as the world above the surface we know so well — and worry over so much.”—Science writer David Wallace-Wells, “The Impacts of Global Warming Are Invisible, But They’re Unimaginably Vast—With Long-Term Consequences That Will Be Hard to Predict,” The New York Times Magazine, June 30, 2024

The image accompanying this post of David Wallace-Wells was taken Sept. 28, 2019, at the 2019 Göteborg Book Fair (talking about his book The Uninhabitable Earth) by Vogler.