 ... earth, but is thrown off into the cold stellar space above. This ascending current, instead of being employed in warming the globe, is in reality one of the most effectual means that the earth has of getting quit of the heat received from the sun,...  Philosophical Magazine - Page 721870Full view - About this book
 | Henry Woodward - 1869 - 646 pages
...the substance best adapted for preventing the dissipation of the earth's heat into space if we wish to raise the general temperature of the earth. Water,...carry the heat which it receives from the sun to every corner of the globe."1 VI. — NOTES ON CONTINENTAL GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. By THOMAS DAVIDSON, FRS,... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1869 - 664 pages
...the substance best adapted for preventing the dissipation of the earth's heat into space if we wish to raise the general temperature of the earth. Water,...carry the heat which it receives from the sun to every corner of the globe."1 VL — NOTES ON CONTINENTAL GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. By THOMAS DAVIDSON, FES,... | |
 | E.R. KNORR - 1871 - 408 pages
...Mote. 180. carried up by the ascending current at the Equator is not employed in warming (Con'd.) ^Q earth, but is thrown off into the cold stellar space...adapted, by means of currents, to carry the heat which is received from the sun to every region of the globe. These results show (although they have reference... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1872 - 724 pages
...lost by radiation, passing off into the stellar spaces. " It is in the Equatorial regions," he says, " that the earth loses as well as gains the greater...receives from the sun to every region of the globe "*. Now in this assumption two facts are entirely ignored : — -first, the very small depth to which... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1872 - 728 pages
...lost by radiation, passing off into the stellar spaces. " It is in the Equatorial regions," he says, " that the earth loses as well as gains the greater...receives from the sun to every region of the globe "*. Now in this assumption two facts are entirely ignored : — -first, the very small depth to which... | |
 | James Croll - 1875 - 632 pages
...extent compensate for the absence of ocean-currents, and in this case land at the equator might bo nearly as well adapted as water for raising the temperature...very great. If the quantity of heat transferred from equatorial regions by the Gulf-stream alone is nearly equal to all the heat received from the sun by... | |
 | James Croll - 1875 - 624 pages
...warm the earth, then it might to a con.siderablc extent compensate for the absence of ocean -currents, and in this case land at the equator might be nearly...stream) that the general influence of ocean-currents on tho .distribution of heat over the surface of the globe must be very great. If the quantity of heat... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1878 - 642 pages
...substances in nature water seems to possess this quality in the highest degree ; and being a fluid it is adapted by means of currents to carry the heat which it receives to every region of the globe. It has been urged as an objection to any ocean-current theory that while... | |
 | James Croll - 1885 - 656 pages
...of the ground at the equator becomes intensely heated by the sun's rays. This causes it to radiate its heat more rapidly into space than a surface of...very great. If the quantity of heat transferred from equatorial regions by the Gulf-stream alone is nearly equal to all the heat received from the sun by... | |
 | James Croll - 1885 - 352 pages
...substances in nature, water seems to possess this quality in the highest degree; and, being a fluid, it is adapted by means of currents to carry the heat which it receives to every region of the globe. It has been urged as an objection to any oceancurrent theory that, while... | |
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