You also ignore any possibility of temperature discontinuities along the line of the thermohaline circulation which could go unnoticed by the currently inadequate ocean heat content figures but greatly affect the rates of energy release from oceans to air over time. (wattsupwiththat.com)
My main point was entirely separate i.e. that without additional information it was inherently implausible (i.e. not entirely credible) that 3 years of La Nina in the 70's would energise two decades of strong El Ninos without supplementary assistance and I proposed that such assistance might arise from temperature discontinuities in the horizontal flow of the thermohaline circulation. (wattsupwiththat.com)
The mysterious surface temperature discontinuity exists because the model is not «full bottle». (scienceofdoom.com)