[ChadGore]

So many people ignore the geologic component in all this.

We live on a "hot" planet. If space is -450.67F (5 degree Kelvin) and the sun is responsible for +33K. of warming of the atmosphere, where does the other 417 degrees come from?

Assuming the crust of the earth is 3.1 miles thick and the Mantle under is 1600 degrees Fahrenheit, how can one ignore a 1600 degree heat source just 3 miles away?

[Steve Van Doorn]

"where does the other 417 degrees come from?

Assuming the crust of the earth is 3.1 miles thick and the Mantle under is 1600 degrees Fahrenheit, how can one ignore a 1600 degree heat source just 3 miles away?

Thank god for global warming. Other wise a typical day in Sothern California would be -337 degrees.

[Steve Van Doorn]

elvisabel78: Again for your process of elimination you have more variables to over come.

Here are a number of possibilities that could be taking place right here:
Mantle of the earth

We are just now very recently (first time viewed in 1997) been learning the Mantle has currents much like our oceans. This means the mantle is a large body of liquid that is moving which has different pressures and temperatures.

More information I found here:

http://www.geophysics.harvard.edu/geodyn/nasa_report/NASA_Final_Report.html