My apologies to Penny. There is a limit to ocean surface temperatures, and it may be related to when evaporation and convection breaks through.
I'm not greatly into this, but I feel there is a big mechanism along the equatorial belt that acts as a heat pump and insulator. Only ocean currents that break out from this can release heat. It's one of the many huge complexities that makes the carbon simplification ridiculous.
So, you can have all the heat in the world, laser beamed on the ocean and it won't go over 30c. Neat.
ps. the semantics people are at work. There is no hard limit at 30.000c. This is an empirical law.
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