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The Ocean Physics Behind Net Zero

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What's Causing Global Warming?

Energy in our climate system not the energy we actually generate from burning stuff. The atmosphere has a very low heat capacity compared to the ocean it's much easier to warm up than water. As the surface warms you get a siphoning off of surface heat so that's where the energy penetrates down into the ocean depths. This is what takes us back to our our climate model our aggression climate model which I will wake up I hope and just to remind you this so fluid flowing in represents energy coming in from the Sun.

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