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.)

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

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

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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.

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