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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 04 March 2015 02:37:18PM 2 points [-]

Has anyone dug into the numbers related to AGW in connection to the heat content of the oceans? I've seen the graph on this wiki page in several places, and I did a calculation suggesting that the heat capacity of the oceans is about 5e24J/(deg C). Since the graph suggests an increase in heat content of about 1e22J/yr, this calculation implies we'll get about 1 degree of warming in 500 years.

Is my calculation wrong? If so, why? Has anyone else looked into this?

Comment author: CellBioGuy 04 March 2015 03:36:50PM 1 point [-]

Unevenly distributed. Most of the warming happens near the poles, the tropics change less.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 04 March 2015 06:04:23PM 1 point [-]

And near the surface more than deeper.

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