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The Ocean Physics Behind Net Zero

Gresham College Lectures

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Climate Science and the Politicians Obsession With Climate Science

The difficulty of explaining climate science to politicians is that just a another tragic feature of the two cultures that politicians learn humanities and journalists then don't understand basic scientific concepts. The political community got on board net zero remarkably quickly but we have to remind them no that's not what we meant by net zero you need to go beyond that well i'll explain more about that in the carbon cycle lecture. I understand that temperatures in Kodiak island in Alaska in first of January 2021 reached 19 degrees c the Antarctic has been apparently recorded as having temperatures at 30 degrees above average how is this affecting deep water cold water formation and the hairlines circulation yes yes.

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