 It is in the equatorial regions that the earth loses as well as gains the greater part of its heat ; so that, of all places, here ought to be placed the substance best adapted for preventing the dissipation of the earth's heat into space, in order to...  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Page 600by Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1872Full 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,... | |
 | 1870 - 1136 pages
...maintaining a much lower temperature than it would otherwise possess. It is in the equatorial regions that the earth loses as well as gains the greater...receives from the sun to every region of the globe*. These results show (although they have reference to only one stream) that the general influence of... | |
 | E.R. KNORR - 1871 - 408 pages
...maintaining a much lower temperature than it would otherwise possess. It is in the Equatorial regions that the earth loses as well as gains the greater...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
...wholly taken up by the Water of the Ocean, is transferred by its currents towards the Polar regions ; whilst of the heat which falls upon the Land, a very...67) ; and second, the conversion of a vast amount ot the solar heat which falls upon the Ocean into the clastic force of vapour, its surface-temperature... | |
 | James Croll - 1875 - 624 pages
...maintaining a much lower temperature than it would otherwise possess. It is in the equatorial regions that the earth loses as well as gains the greater...receives from the sun to every region of the globe. These results show (although they have reference to only one stream) that the general influence of... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 1867 - 1174 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. In assuming those three periods of great excentricity between 1,000,000 and 700,000... | |
 | Frank Chambers, Michael Ogle - 2002 - 368 pages
...substance best adapted for preventing the dissipation of the earth's heat into space, if 17 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. In assuming those three periods of great excentricity between 1,000,000 and 700,000... | |
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