ReinyDays
Gold Member
But we measure air temperatures over water!
Yea ... so? ... our ten thousand year or ten million year averages will begin to approach equality ... and remember, the water heats the air, including latent heat ... if the surface was 100% reflective, air temperature would be ... er ... oops ... the atmosphere is floating on the ocean now ... it liquified ... 50 K is all the energy it contains ...