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To: Right Wing Professor
They taught us basic physics in Ireland too, and I do believe we also covered the subject of how it's hot in Africa and Arabia.

No really!!! And I suppose South America, Australia and Mexico are cold.

Figure 7m-4: Average annual temperatures for the Earth's surface (1982-94).

Ireland is such a great place. Why did you leave it to come to the land of eejits?

1,250 posted on 04/25/2006 6:39:55 PM PDT by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: AndrewC
And I suppose South America, Australia and Mexico are cold.

Average anuual temperature, degrees Fahrenheit.

Riyadh 77.4 F
Khartoum 84.6 F


Rio de Janeiro 73.9 F
Alice Springs, Australia 69.3 F
Mexico City 60.8F

Note that South America is quite pink in the map you posted, particularly the Amazon basin. Note also that radiation isn't strictly a function of the average temperature, but the average fourth power of the absolute temperature. I'll explain that to you if you ask nicely. Extreme conditions, such as are experienced in the central Sahara and Arabian peninsula in the summer, strongly perturb the result.

Ireland is such a great place. Why did you leave it to come to the land of eejits?

I don't understand. I've never had the slightest wish to live in North Texas.

1,266 posted on 04/26/2006 7:42:32 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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