Lumifer comments on Stupid Questions March 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 04 March 2015 07:46:59PM 3 points [-]

Heat content of the oceans is complicated because you can't treat the oceans as a single reservoir -- they have layers and these layers do not mix well. In particular, any warming of the oceans is confined to the upper layers.

You can find lots of discussion e.g. here, or, more specifically, here.