The Ocean Physics Behind Net Zero
Gresham College Lectures
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The Earth's Climate System
It's warmed up but not as much okay about half what it would do if it actually was allowed to. In the early stages of global warming where energy is being carried off into the ocean as well as energy going back out into space you see much less of the warmingyou eventually see when the system comes back into equilibrium. It means that if we were to keep our our concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere constant at today's level forever we wouldn't just see the warming we've already seen it would keep warming and this is why it's really important to understand this process.
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