[DB]

I think it was your point to another poster to site references, not to make others find your "facts" for you.

Your making a claim. Find a link to support it and I'll read it.

I sited my source. Your turn. I believe you are wrong by a large factor. Prove me wrong and I'll accept it.

[ableChair]

Well, my source is a hard-copy. How about a direct quotation from the Atlas? Otherwise I have to go hunt it down on the internet at 3 a.m.

[ableChair]

From the Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy Third Edition, page 96: [Fair use provisions!]

"Only 49 percent of the available solar radiation reaches the surface of our planet [all types - my comment], 5 percent through direct radiation, 22 percent through clouds and 22 percent by downwards scattering in the atmosphere".

In other words, 95% is initially absorbed and some of that reaches the Earth through convection.