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tonyt53

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2. Thermodynamics at work. The reason the ocean ice is melting at an accelerated pace.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 10:18 PM

Aug 2018

It isn't so much the heat at the surface as it is the heat of the water. Solid mass, like land, is an excellent heat sink. However, with water covering most of the planet, the oceans are absorbing the bulk of it.

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Not just land heat waves: Oceans are in hot water, too [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2018 OP

ocean at waikiki today 81, less than a degree above normal. hurricane coming msongs Aug 2018 #1

Thermodynamics at work. The reason the ocean ice is melting at an accelerated pace. tonyt53 Aug 2018 #2