[FatherofFive]

and make the next couple of years among the hottest we’ve ever known

Weather patterns do not INCREASE heat around the globe. It shifts it. If Seattle is hot, Munich will be cold, or whatever.

Heat - ENERGY - comes from the sun.

[Paladin2]

"Stored" heat can come out of the oceans or at least not be "sunk" there.

The whole "Erf's temp" meme is ill defined - land surface temps? Total heat in the oceans? total heat in the Atmosphere? Cloud cover? Top of the atmosphere temps?