specific heat

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Additional evidence came from specific heat measurements, which supported the idea that these predicted emergent photons follow a dispersion resembling the way sound moves through a solid.

From Science Daily

“Without a specific heat standard, it makes it more challenging for regulators to decide, ‘OK, this employer’s breaking the law or not.’”

From Washington Times

The panel finds that these specific heat events, as well as others, would have been “extremely unlikely to occur without human influence on the climate system.”

From Washington Post

They have a high “specific heat capacity” — it takes a lot of energy to raise their temperatures by just a degree.

From Washington Post

Rapid attribution analysis attempts to answer two questions about a specific heat event: how much worse, and how much more likely, did climate change make it?

From New York Times