Notable numbers: Zettajoules, virtual charters and terrible presidents
91 The percentage of registered Republican voters who are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the nation today
89 The percentage who say President Obama is not taking the threat from ISIS seriously enough
76 The percentage who say the government’s anti-terrorism policies have not gone far enough to adequately protect the country
75 The percentage of Republicans who say they would support sending ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria
75 The percentage who say the U.S. would be safer if more people carried guns
90 The percentage of the heat energy from man-made global warming that goes into the oceans instead of the ground
150 The number of zettajoules of energy the oceans absorbed between 1865 and 1997
150 The number they absorbed between 1998 and 2015
2 The number of zettajoules that would be produced by exploding an atomic bomb the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima every second for a year
58.62 The average global temperature in 2015, the highest recorded in 136 years of record-keeping
0.29 How much higher that temperature was than in 2014
1.62 How much higher 2015 was than the average for the 20th century
$200 million What criminals on dating sites stole from victims last year
4,000 The number of times an emergency room doctor clicks a mouse in a 10-hour shift
18,802 The number of civilians killed in Iraq between the start of 2014 and Oct. 31
2,800 The number killed in 2011
47,055 The number of Americans who died of drug overdoses in 2014
125 How many that means died per day
10.9 million The estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the United States, the lowest number since 2003
52 The percentage of U.S. voters who said in a Pew Research survey that Donald Trump would make a poor or terrible president
44 The percentage who said that about Hillary Clinton
42 About Jeb Bush
36 About Chris Christie
35 About Bernie Sanders
34 About Ben Carson
31 About Ted Cruz
29 About Marco Rubio
24 About John Kasich
35 The percentage of U.S. voters who said in the Pew Research survey that Clinton would make a good or great president
31 The percentage who said that about Trump
30 About Sanders
28 About Cruz
26 About Carson
24 About Rubio
19 About Christie
17 About Bush
13 About Kasich (though 31 percent of respondents said they’d never heard of him, the highest)
351 The number of students who dropped out of the virtual N.C. Connections Academy its first three months of operation, accounting for 20 percent of total enrollment
331 The number who dropped out of Virtual Academy over the same time period, or 19 percent of its enrollment
This story was originally published January 22, 2016 at 4:00 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Zettajoules, virtual charters and terrible presidents."