Climate Change:World Ocean Review Chapter 1 Climate Change
Published: April 16, 2011
Updated: April 16, 2011, 3:50 pm
Lead Author: World Ocean Review Team
The world oceans, global climate drivers
The oceans cover around 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface. They thus play an important role in the Earth’s climate and in global warming. One important function of the oceans is to transport heat from the tropics to higher latitudes. They respond very slowly to changes in the atmosphere. Beside heat, they take up large amounts of the carbon dioxide emitted by humankind.
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The world oceans, global climate drivers
The oceans cover around 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface. They thus play an important role in the Earth’s climate and in global warming. One important function of the oceans is to transport heat from the tropics to higher latitudes. They respond very slowly to changes in the atmosphere. Beside heat, they take up large amounts of the carbon dioxide emitted by humankind.
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