“Webby you are as wacky as anyone on the internet. Energy can can enter the ocean only in the short wave. So your diffusion concept is physically impossible, absurdly conceived of and ridiculously argued. So you are stupid as well as being abusive and bullying. “
Capatain Kangaroo, You are a lying manipulator, a poseur when it comes to real science. You make up this narrative to suit your own agenda, which appears to be some Australian pasttime of trolling.
This is what I said earlier on in the thread:
Heat flows from regions of high concentration to regions of low concentration. The specific scenario is the slow diffusive movement of thermal energy into the ocean. This takes place from the surface layer on down. The sun’s rays of course will heat the surface layer, and if the air is warmer than the surface, which is typical, a gradient will get set up which will also heat the water to some extent.
Note the bolded part, you jerkwad. I said the air will heat the surface to some extent, because it will, as that is the direction of the gradient, when the air warms before the water warms. Your problem likely is that civils are not really taught mathematical physics that well and don’t probably think in terms of gradients.
Heat flows in the direction of the gradient, from regions of high thermal energy (high temperature) to regions of low thermal energy (high temperature) . Do you understand this, Captain Kangaroo? This is not hard to understand in one dimension, and one can add other terms due to convection effects, but thermal vibrational energy by itself can only flow by diffusion :
