From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 17:20:50 MDT
In a message dated 6/30/01 10:03:07 AM, bradbury@aeiveos.com writes:
>Now, the only reason we haven't seen massive global warming
>(IMO) is because the planet has a huge amount of thermal
>inertia (mostly in the oceans I'd guess) and so global
>warming accelerates very slowly.
A very recent paper in Science (I think) said just this; something like 90%
of the recent
global heat increase has gone to the ocean. Didn't say it was an inertia
issue but
that certainly seems reasonable.
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