The Ocean Physics Behind Net Zero
Gresham College Lectures
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What Do You Think Is Going to Happen This Time?
So what this pipe represents is the heat content of the deep oceans and therefore that level of water in the pipe is proportional to the sort of average deep ocean temperature. The oceans have a bigger heat capacity than the atmosphere so it takes more fluid more energy to push up the temperatures of the oceans than it takes to push up temperatures of the atmosphere. So now I'm going to increase my greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere increase the rate of turning of the pump by the same amount that I did the first time before okay then we'll see what happens.
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