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Oceans have been warming at almost half the rate of land - here's why
Land has a smaller “heat capacity” than water, which means it needs less heat to raise its temperature significantly.
Dr Michael Byrne is a lecturer in earth surface processes at the University of St Andrews and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Group at the University of Oxford