I understand that hurricanes get their strength from warm ocean water but do they take a measurable amount of heat from the water? ('Not going anywhere with this question, just wondering.)

  • Exulion@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    If we just install giant heat pipes from the equator to the polls. :thinking:

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      1 day ago

      They’re already installed. We call them ocean currents, and climate change is about to wreck them.

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        6 hours ago

        Sure sure, but what if we didn’t care about how nature did it and did it ourselves. I can’t see a way this could go wrong.