@chenille the data come directly from Argo:
http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/global_change_analysis.html
Life doesn’t care about the total energy in the system. If the ocean is ample to distribute that total over a tremendous mass and volume such that the effect at any given location is small, life will hardly notice. Hence the reason ocean temp figures so strongly in climate models, and why their overestimation of it led to embarrassingly bad predictions over the past 15 years.
@Cowicide Look: 99% of voters favor democracy over anarchy, and 99.9% of Creation Scientists believe in the literal existence of Adam and Eve. Oh, and most water is wet.
Even if it’s true, it’s totally redundant and useless, because Selection Bias.
For the record: I don’t deny anthropogenic global warming.
