the first paragraph explains the second:
While both the Moon and the Sun influence the ocean tides, the Moon plays the biggest role. Although the Sun's gravitational pull on the Earth is 178 times stronger than the Moon's, the tidal bulges it causes are much smaller.
The second paragraph then talks about lifting vs pulling and other types of explanations for how the water piles up.
So the moon is lifting the oceans up, they are contradicting themselves. Maybe this is a bad source and bad tangent to go off on.
Yeah, the effects are from the moon and the sun for sure, but the source tries to explain them as other forces rather than just a lifting and pulling.
They seem to want to explain how the tides can match on opposite sides of the world without using the term "lifting" since the moon can't "lift" from both sides at the same time.
Yeah it doesn't make sense to me.
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