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Climate Change Has Got The Earth In Hot Water

It is understandable that people discussing global warming focus on air temperatures. Lower atmospheric temperatures are shown on the news and weather reports every day. We walk around in the air. We breathe it in. We talk about how hot it’s been this summer, how warm last winter was, or how this is the hottest day on record.

But global warming is all about water. Water, not the atmosphere, drives the weather, and drives climate. The atmosphere is mostlyaffected by the water on Earth, not the other way around. Atmospheric temperatures are volatile. Not so ocean temperatures.

The oceans absorb a thousand times more heat than the atmosphere and hold 90% of the heat of global warming.