Most incoming solar radiation is intercepted by tropical oceans.  This is where most of the heat comes from, the real heat on Earth.

The world’s oceans move some heat to the higher latitudes including North America and Europe by ocean currents.

Should a lot of solar radiation come in on one exceptionally sunny day, the oceans still won’t overheat because excess energy can always move vertically by which I mean up. I have observed that this is especially the case late in the afternoon through the formation of cumulonimbus clouds as part of thunderstorms.

Once high up in the atmosphere all this energy can be radiated to space.   And there is a lot of space, I mean there is still a lot of room in outer space.

This is why, despite more than one billion people, with so many cars, and all the factories producing plastic straws and bottles, the oceans on planet Earth are still not boiling.

Heat energy can be lost as noisy electro-magnetic radiation.  The tiny moving charges move more and faster on hotter things.  This means they generate more electrostatic and magnetic field changes.

When I go out on boats over the ocean late in the afternoon, I can be a part of thunderstorms that include light shows and so much crackling and banging.  There was a big thunderstorm and light show just yesterday, late in the afternoon not far from the Tropic of Capricorn above the western Pacific Ocean where I live.

Meanwhile the people with much of the economic power in this world, they mostly don’t live in the tropics.  And they don’t take the time to observe the different components of the atmosphere or even to sit outside during a tropical thunderstorm.

I wonder if they even know what rain smells like.    I wonder if they think the smell of rain has changed with the climate that is always changing.

It was a few white men sitting inside, around a table in Massachusetts that is even further north than New York in another hemisphere, that came up with the idea that a doubling of carbon dioxide would cause global temperatures to increase by exactly 3 degrees Celsius and for the whole Earth.

They came up with this idea while acknowledging they had little idea about clouds – and had never visited the tropics.

That was in 1979, the same year that Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the same year that Rupert Murdoch founded the global media holding company the News Corporation Ltd.  Suddenly there was a push for globally relevant temperatures, news and within a few years the coal miners who had underpinned British manufacturing were to become villains in a new narrative about global overheating.

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