SSDD
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The oceans determine the temperature of the atmosphere...not the other way around...it is that sort of belief that has made a dupe of you.Or transfers that energy to the oceans.One more attempt at explaining how GHGs warm the atmosphere.
Elastic collisions result in both objects recoiling with the same amount of kinetic energy as they entered with.
Inelastic collisions have a different amount of kinetic energy because some amount of potential energy has been stored or released as a result of the collision.
Near the surface CO2 absorbs more energy than it emits. That energy is transformed into kinetic speed (temperature) by collision. Warming.
Near the top of the atmosphere CO2 emits radiation to space using energy that it got from collisions which resulted in vibrational states. Cooling
There is more 15 micron radiation produced at the 15C surface than at the -50C TOA. That energy is stored in the atmosphere until it finds a different path out.