[grey_whiskers]

Does anybody want to check my math above?

I've done better than that, I've done the math on your checks.

Exxon Mobil is paying you! /Gore-bot>

(Seriously, the only issue I see is that the solar irradiation is 365 days / year: a hurricane lasts what-- a week or ten days? So 10 days * 1 year / 365 days = .0274 years. Include the 1% factor, and each hurricane transposts .00274 of the average annual solar irradiation.

Which actually does a lot to refute "The Day After Tomorrow" and its monster cyclones, doesn't it...?

(Hint: in order for NYC etc. to freeze solid, what is the rate at which energy must have been
a) transported to the upper atmosphere
b) then radiated out to space

The mind reels.

Cheers!

[PapaBear3625]

Seriously, the only issue I see is that the solar irradiation is 365 days / year: a hurricane lasts what-- a week or ten days? So 10 days * 1 year / 365 days = .0274 years. Include the 1% factor, and each hurricane transposts .00274 of the average annual solar irradiation.

Yes, thanks. So where the negative feedback mechanism comes in, is that warmer oceans would extend the hurricane season, and also there would be more hurricanes running at a time, causing more heat to be dumped to the upper atmosphere.