Tisk Tisk. I wish the original person didn't post a strawman of how climate change occurs when we are discussing global warming. It has to do with the surface more so than the oceans; as the oceans can sustain life far after the surface can't.

Global Warming is the average increase in global temperatures each year. This affects weather patterns over many years, creating harsher climates for each geographical area in the onset, and then eventually leading to higher levels of radiation to create more tropical climates.

CO2 in this respect is what heats up the atmosphere for the surface climates to change. As CO2 levels rise, permafrost starts to thaw creating more CO2, thus snowballing into trapping more radiation from the sun. It's not a matter of the oceans heating up, it's a matter of the surface temperatures in the poles rising just enough to start thawing large amounts. However, where the large amount of argumentation happens is the time spans for this to take place....'cuz as we've seen Al Gore's falsified data predictions, it will take a lot longer than previously thought.