Sea levels rise by 'unexpected' amount in 2024: NASA

Are you completely ignoring the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics? ... what keeps this energy in the oceans? ...

Better: how does this energy travel down the water column to be stored? ... or are you storing all this energy (1,360 joules per second per square meter) in the top layer of water molecules? ... remember, no thermal convection in the oceans ...
UV radiation penetrates slightly over 500 meters deep and dumps it's energy all along that path. It is constantly being renewed, and has been for billions of years. It takes a lot of time for heat, at that depth, to percolate back up to the surface.
 
UV radiation penetrates slightly over 500 meters deep and dumps it's energy all along that path. It is constantly being renewed, and has been for billions of years. It takes a lot of time for heat, at that depth, to percolate back up to the surface.
Yep. The high heat capacity of water allows the ocean to store a large amount of energy. Waves, tides, and currents help distribute heat throughout the ocean, moving it from warmer to cooler latitudes and deeper levels. Thermohaline circulation gradually mixes surface and deep waters over long periods, contributing to the overall heat distribution within the ocean. The ocean stores heat more readily than it releases heat. This is due to its vast size, high heat capacity, and the slow movement of water, which allows it to absorb and retain a large amount of heat from the sun.
 
Are you completely ignoring the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?
Not at all. Why do you believe the ocean warming violates the SLoT? The empirical climate evidence from the geologic record shows that for the last 3 million years the oceans and atmosphere warm when the northern deglaciates and cool when the northern hemisphere glaciates.

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Are you completely ignoring the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics? ... what keeps this energy in the oceans? ...

Better: how does this energy travel down the water column to be stored? ... or are you storing all this energy (1,360 joules per second per square meter) in the top layer of water molecules? ... remember, no thermal convection in the oceans ...

You seem to forget that the Sun is constantly adding a lot of energetic radiation into the waters for several hundred meters 24/7 the very fact of a moderate El-Nino outflow rapidly increases the temperature of the air then cools back down when the excess is removed in various ways and the El-Nino phase declines.
 
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