What warms the sea more, visible light or infrared radiation?

A remote control uses light waves just beyond the visible spectrum of light—infrared light waves—to change channels on your TV. .... west of the coast of South America, there is a place where you can distinctly see multiple layers of clouds, with the warmer clouds at lower altitudes, closer to the ocean that's warming them. read more

If one column is cold and the other is warm, the air pressure in the cold column will ____ the air pressure in the warm column. decrease more rapidly with increasing height than The surface pressures at the bases of warm and cold columns of air are equal. read more

But light sources like LEDs and fluorescents are not black bodies; they emit most energy in the visible range and hardly any in infra-red. Even with an incandescent bulb, our eyes are so sensitive to visible light that it requires hardly any power compared to what it takes for us to feel infra-red as heat. read more