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Global temperatures are heading downward, and fast
wattsupwiththat.com ^ | 6/21/2016 | Anthony Watts

Posted on 06/21/2016 10:58:00 AM PDT by rktman

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To: rktman

Not all that long ago, another Ice Age was on its way.


41 posted on 06/21/2016 1:17:51 PM PDT by Twinkie (Cowards die a thousand deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.)
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To: wastoute
The heat flux from the earth's core, through all that rock, is pretty small. You can prove this by digging a hole.

Done?

Good, what's the temperature at the bottom of the hole? Well, maybe not deep enough. The deepest mine (2.5 miles) has a rock temperature of 151F. That's pretty trifling for 2.5 miles down. Asphalt in summer sun can reach 150F. Therefore the sun wins by 2.5 miles.

42 posted on 06/21/2016 1:26:47 PM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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To: justa-hairyape

nice explanation


43 posted on 06/21/2016 1:30:41 PM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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To: palmer

I dunno. The mine I used to work in was about a thousand feet deep. It was about 70 degrees F, IIRC. I hear diamond mines in South Africa are deeper and hotter. So a gradient from absolute zero to the temperature on my deck could be considered to have the portion from absolute zero to 70 F due to the earth’s core and the last 20 to 30 F due to sunlight, the way I see it.


44 posted on 06/21/2016 1:46:35 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: vsEPAwarrior

Of the cuff, as I recall, the sun’s surface is about the same as our core temp.


45 posted on 06/21/2016 1:47:49 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute
Not likely. Your 1000 feet has a gradient of about 15 degreees (55 near the top depending on latitude) and 70 at the top. That's a very low gradient for heat flux. Consider midsummer on a sunny day. The earth's surface might reach 120F but 6 feet down it is still 60F or so.

Bottom line is that the earth is a very good insulator in general.

47 posted on 06/21/2016 2:25:10 PM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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To: rktman

I actually think it would be a lot of fun if one or more of these States experiencing Unusual COLD Weather would file a RICO Lawsuit against CALIFORNIA, Claiming that their AB32 Global Warming Solutions Act worked too good and they overdid it and through their DIRECT ACTION has Plunged the World in to another Ice Age.

Watch them ADMIT in OPEN COURT that their Global Warming PLAN had NOTHING TO DO WITH CLIMATE, Then JAIL ALL OF THEM FOR LIFE!


48 posted on 06/21/2016 2:50:54 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: rktman

U.S. Drought Monitor (map)
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/


49 posted on 06/21/2016 3:08:26 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: little jeremiah

It cools down the sea’s surface. It produces strong trade winds and more rain in some parts of the world.


50 posted on 06/21/2016 3:35:00 PM PDT by Darnright (When a system acts illegally, its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force)
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To: palmer

The sun’s rays warm Mars but it’s surface is much colder. Same with the moon.


51 posted on 06/21/2016 3:45:44 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Darnright

Thank you. I like cool and rain, hope it brings rain here.


52 posted on 06/21/2016 4:16:14 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: wastoute
Daytime temperature on Mars is as high as 70F and 250F in sunlight on the moon. Temperatures on venus are high without sun hitting the surface. Heat from volcanoes is 1016 J http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040301/full/news040301-1.html while not the same as all geothermal, the volcanoes are the hottest part of the geothermal flux. Compare that to 1024 from the sun hitting the earth annually.
53 posted on 06/21/2016 4:55:51 PM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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To: Mr. K

they realized someone had invented a legitimate-sounding way to tax the air.<<<.....That you breath!

IMAGINE IT!!!


54 posted on 06/21/2016 7:34:47 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: Moonman62
lol.....Wanna bet????...early 70’s ice off Peanut Island puddles...i think my friend still has pictures.....
55 posted on 06/21/2016 7:40:00 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: M-cubed

Yes, I’ll bet. South Florida doesn’t have cold fronts in June.

I remember ice and very light snow in the late 70’s, but that was in January.


56 posted on 06/21/2016 9:20:37 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: vsEPAwarrior

Ha, ha, I feel that way now, too. We’re in Oklahoma, and it’s just as hot and miserable here. Think of me, though, next January when I’m up to my eyeballs in snow and there’s a -40 wind chill. I have already told people they may not see me outside at all from November until April.


57 posted on 06/21/2016 9:35:51 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: palmer

Thanks for your knowledge. I do appreciate it. The point I was trying to make, poorly it seems, was that the Earth’s surface is heated from above and below and trying to consider just what the proportion is. Perhaps I overstated the possibility but considering the many variables I wonder if anyone knows just what the proportion is. In any case I am just about certain the Core’s contribution is not trivial.

So taken together, water vapor absorbing and reflecting 90% of IR, methane another bit, CO2 contribution to IR absorption is a small portion IF there even IS a “greenhouse effect”. 2 drops in a 50 gallon tub is mankind’s contribution to global CO2. Add in warming from the central core which is NEVER considered and IMHO should be, and the “anthropogenic” part becomes infinitesimal.


58 posted on 06/22/2016 4:44:25 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

regarding you deck, if you get one of those Sunsetter retractable awnings, it will lower the temp 20 F


59 posted on 06/22/2016 4:52:34 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: RainMan

Are you not worried about a volcanic eruption and pyroclastic flow?


60 posted on 06/22/2016 4:55:51 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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