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Just Wondering

wrote:

Of course the latent heat of evaporation and the high heat capacity
of water overwhelms that. Small global changes in humidity or ocean
temperature absorb or emit huge amounts of heat. That is a real good
thing as it provides us with stability. It also make it devilishly
difficult to tell if the Earth is warming or cooling and at what rate,
without very long observation, unless the rate is dangerously large.

I suspect it also oretty much drowns out the effect of minute changes in
atmospheric CO2 concentrations.