From: "Robert Comer" 

> I still don't agree, we have other planets in our solar system with
> atmospheres, some hotter, some cooler, almost all the others have more
> violent weather than we do.

That's not a valid argument because those other planets with an atmosphere
and more violent storms *are* hotter than here.

A good example is Venus, it's as close to 1 A.U. as you can get and not be
earth, but you see, it's got a lot of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere
and what do you know, but it's got storms that earth has never seen
power-wise.  Lets go out a little, mars, light atmosphere, some dust storms
but nothing that can compare to a hurricane.  Now how about Jupiter, hows
125000 Kelvin at the center?  Now Saturn, 15000 Kelvin at the center.
Uranus, 5000 kelvin, but with winds comparable to earth most places and
don't forget about atmospheric difference in weight of gasses and such.  As
a comparison, the earths core is somewhere between 3700 and 7300 Kelvin.
(There's some argument about that obviously.)  It's true core temperature
don't have as much to do with storm heat here on earth because of the rocky
basis of our planet, but the gas giant, just think of the atmospheric
pressure and you can tell where the heat for the storms comes from...

>In fact if you use them as examples it would
> seem heat is meaningless and that the denser the atmosphere the more
> severe
> the storms.

Aye, because of the heat generated by the compression.

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Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message news:444164e1$4{at}w3....
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:44416279$1{at}w3....
>
>> heat to make a storm, but when those other factors are present, more heat
>> most certainly means stronger storm.
>
> I still don't agree, we have other planets in our solar system with
> atmospheres, some hotter, some cooler, almost all the others have more
> violent weather than we do. In fact if you use them as examples it would
> seem heat is meaningless and that the denser the atmosphere the more
> severe
> the storms.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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