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To: GOP_1900AD
Um.... you are claiming conduction? Hmmmm ....

No -- just convection! If you take a cold glass of iced tea out on the porch on a hot summer day, what happens to the temperature of the iced tea? (It doesn't happen because the sun is shining on the glass of tea!)

The oceans are a lot more complex than that; they give up heat in certain areas and absorb it elsewhere (tropics), but the atmospheric temperature is what determines the oceanic temperature.

81 posted on 11/22/2006 7:43:17 AM PST by cogitator
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To: cogitator

You might be missing a rather large source of incident energy.


87 posted on 11/22/2006 4:19:03 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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