During the middle of the Eocene, about 40 million years ago...

On Nov 4, 10:19*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 11/4/10 4:45 PM, oriel36 wrote:

*From January to July where you live there is a huge temperature
increase and you can't explain it

* *The angle of incident sunlight goes from less than 25 above the
* *horizon around noon on the winter solstice to more than 71 above
* *the horizon around noon on the summer solstice. My part of the
* *world absorbs way more sunlight (and IR) causing warmer temperatures
* *in the summer than winter.

* *These are things you should have learned in school, Gerald.

Oldest lesson in the world is that if you can't be trusted with
fundamental things,you can't be trusted with complex issues.There are
only two motions involved and you refuse to recognize the orbital
daylight/darkness cycle where there is a single day/night cycle
arising from the orbital motion of the Earth and coincident with an
orbital period.The temperature fluctuation between January and July
where you live,excluding geographical modifications,is due to the
length of time you latitude spends in solar radiation or in the
orbital shadow of the Earth and that depends on acknowledging the slow
and uneven orbital turning of the Earth to the central Sun.

No point in wasting time explaining that you are trying to explain 6
month temperature fluctuations referencing the poles to the Sun
whereas the correct approach is to begin with temperature fluctuations
at the equator and see the greater fluctuations occur in tandem with
the greater latitudinal variations between daylight and darkness
towards polar latitudes and that means looking at the changing
relationship between the Earth's two daylight/darkness cycles and
their respective motions.You refuse to acknowledge the orbital
daylight/darkness cycle but then again you can't even recognize the
correspondence between daily rotation and the daylight/darkness cycle
as you believe there are 366 1/4 rotations in a year.

You probably wanted to say 'tilt to the orbital plane' like you used
to do but I guess you have caught up with the analogy of broom and
central object in imitating the orbital behavior of the Earth.