[Rhodes22-list] TGGW

[Bud]

How about this as a theory....
   the oceans are warmed by the sun, and then give up their energy via 
evaporation, transferring
that energy as heat to the atmosphere - at some given rate.  Now suppose 
hurricanes also convert
the ocean's thermal energy to the atmosphere, BUT at a much faster rate, 
such that a hurricane
significantly contributes  to global warming.  Thus, more tropical 
storms (hurricanes/cylones/typhones)
equate to a faster warming of the atmosphere. Obviously hurricanes also 
convert some of the ocean thermal
energy to kinetic energy and damage lots of objects in it's path.  At 
one time I had read something
that equated the amount of energy released by a hurricane to the level 
of an atomic bomb.

-Bud



Geankoplis wrote:

>Energy is never destroyed; it is only converted into other forms.  The
>thermal energy of the heat is converted to kinetic energy, or transferred to
>the atmosphere.  Think of the Hurricane as a package of energy of several
>types leaking all over the place and trying to reach some sort of
>equilibrium by transferring the energy from an area of high thermal energy
>(tropics) to one of low thermal energy (higher latitudes).
>
>Chris G
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>Bud,
>Hurricanes actually destroy/consume heat energy.
> 
>Rummy
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