On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 10:15:03 PM UTC+1, palsing wrote:
On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 11:17:23 AM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

...the entire surface of a planet turns to the Sun in response to its orbital motion...

... and there is your extra sidereal day each year! Congratulations!

You know, whatever you may think of yourself you are not a snake in the grass and I have had only a few issues with you in terms of allowing me to express my viewpoint without misrepresentation. I see Collins post a new thread least he find himself like the other ill individual who has the only sole purpose of attaching himself to my posts.

The mess of 'climate change' is due to the lack of astronomical involvement in the topic and specifically the two major components which affect weather and temperature fluctuations across latitudes as the Earth runs its annual circuit. In this non confrontational approach the dynamics behind the diurnal day/night cycle and separately the polar day/night cycle dismiss any notion of a solar and sidereal day. It becomes an effort to combine the separate rotations into the form it takes as seasonal weather experiences and how changes in inclination affect those conditions across a wider range of latitudes between more benign or more extreme conditions.

The fact the genuine climate research only goes on in this forum is not a boast but a dismaying fact, hostile audience or not.