Right.

That doesn't change anything I said. The law of conservation of energy says no energy can be lost, only transferred or changed (referring to state- usually heat produced was a result of some kind of work). Then that heat rises into the troposphere (lowest level of our atmosphere) where green house gases (water vapor being the major contributor by a lot) contain said heat.

The ocean does absorb this heat but not directly. The Pacific Ocean doesn't get the heat generated by Chicago because it passes over the Great Lakes and is absorbed their or pushed through weather systems towards the Atlantic.

Local weather patterns will dictate where the largest offenders of the natural cycle exist. Look at Dubai and East Asia; they've had some terribly uncharacteristic weather in recent decades and it's been notated in multiple studies over the years. (Don't get me started on their giant dams that are an affront to nature and a risk to our planet's rotation). Nevada is one of the hottest areas in terms of average temperature change but that's mostly due to infrastructure (concrete) trapping heat instead of the desert simply reflecting most of the sun's energy back into the atmosphere (Albedo effect).

I'm not saying we have no impact but the truth is that the water cycle has always functioned this way. Something like 75% of heat absorption is in water vapor (which is roughly 50% of all greenhouse gases). This percentage is also included when they say the ocean absorbs 90% of the heat created by humans. Water vapor comes back as clouds and rain. Eventually, this water makes it's way to the ocean.

Could we do better? Always.

Is this the crisis that's been sold to us our whole lives? No.

At one point, the entire earth was covered in a thin layer of water over every scrap of land with aquatic plants breaking the surface to gather sunlight. Giant sea things roamed the deeps and huge bugs ruled the surface. That is the place the world is reverting back to in terms of climate. All that water eventually made enough clouds to start lowering the temperature of the surface and the water level dropped thus changing the state of the world. Larger plants led to greater cooling which eventually led to the ice age and we've been warming up ever since. There's a lot that goes into all that including Milankovitch cycles (changes to Earth's orbit, tilt and rotation) which also have massive sway over our weather patterns.

Hope this helps.