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How did the ocean stay cool before steamships were invented?
by organsnyder 3y ago
How did the ocean stay cool before steamships were invented?
- Kuinox 3y agoThere was less CO2 in the air.
- eptcyka 3y agoThere was less CO2 in the atmosphere, which increased its capacity to cool off the oceans.
- energybored11 3y agoThey did not.
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- samatman 3y agoWe don't know that they did. It takes satellites to get a representative measure of ocean temperatures worldwide. There's some noisy data from ships dipping mercury thermometers into the oceans, but this was hardly a widespread practice.