Just a couple of quick calculations:
The total annual energy production/consumption of the world is something like 4 x 10^12 BTU, or 1 x 10^17 calories.
1 calorie can raise the temp of one cc of water by one degree C.
1 cubic kilometer of water is 10^15 cc.
Therefore the total world energy consumption could raise the temp of 1 cu km of water by 100 deg C, in other words boil it.
However, the world's oceans contain about 1.4 billion cu km of water, so if you poured all of the world's energy production into the ocean, you would raise the temp by 0.00000007 degrees C in a year.
(The annual total energy input of the sun to the earth is something like 1.2 x 10^24 calories, which could raise the ocean temp by 0.7 deg C if it all went into the water. Of course surface temperatures are more important to weather that total average ocean temperature, some of the incident solar radiation is reflected, etc, etc, but you get the picture)
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Raising ocean temperatures