The ocean is as important to the climate as the atmosphere

The Economist Energy Solutions

The ocean is as important to the climate as the atmosphere
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For homo sapiens, a dry-land species, discussions of the climate and how it is changing tend to revolve around what is going on in the atmosphere. This is a dangerously parochial attitude, for the atmosphere is but one of two fluid systems circulating above Earth’s solid surface. The other, the ocean, is in many ways the more important of the pair.

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