A student claims that since water has a high specific heat, areas near the ocean are always colder than areas away from the ocean. Do you agree with his reasoning? Explain your position.

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A student claims that since water has a high specific heat, areas near the ocean are always colder than areas away from the ocean. Do you agree with his reasoning? Explain your position.

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The ocean waters will be warm because of the suns heat. So therefore i don't agree

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I don't agree because ocean temperatures can get warm thanks to high sun temperature and warm fronts.

Zhenglei answered May 1, 2018

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