>> Cool them down and they absorb gas, warm them up and they release it.
But on a 700 year cycle as I understand aruannan’s post?
It would then seem that all of our weather is buffered by the oceans including hurricanes, and it would be virtually impossible to directly affect the climate in our lifetime, or the next. Are we seeing hurricanes that are the result of conditions from centuries ago?
The ocean is big and deep, so a 700yr lag doesn’t sound outrageous too me. The atmosphere and ocean surface varies much more than the deep ocean, but their temperature swings are still anchored by the deep wafer. Hurricanes and other storms are generated by temperature/pressure imbalances in the atmosphere so they are going to respond to short term inputs.
I think our inputs to the climate are quite small in the grand scheme of things.