Specific heat capacity is an important concept when we talk about climate change and weather. It tells us how much energy is needed to change temperatures.

Here are some challenges we face:

• Water has a high specific heat. This means it takes a long time for oceans to change temperature. This makes it hard to create accurate climate models.
• More carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere messes up the balance of energy, which can lead to extreme weather like storms and heatwaves.

But there are solutions we can work on:

• We can make our climate models better by taking specific heat into account.
• We can focus on using more renewable energy sources to help reduce the extra thermal energy in our environment.