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Originally Posted by freebeard
Perhaps decoupled isn't the right word. I also used 'different'.
Given the pushback, I'll not watch it again, but there was discussion of the Coriollis Effect. The trade winds create three zones. Does that work?
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It's an artifact of latitudinal velocity around Earth's spin axis.
At the Equator, the ground underfoot is moving with a velocity of 1,032-mph at that average mean radius from Earth's center.
It's zero at the poles.
The further you move north, or south of the Equator, the 'slower' the velocity.
It's what explains the direction a whirlpool forming in a sink or bathtub exhibits. They're 'opposite' depending on which 'hemisphere' you're in.
( computer-generated military sniper firing solutions for their Barret 0.50 long guns must incorporate the 'Coriolis Effect' in order to compensate for their target, that may be a mile away in latitude )
Fluids ( air and water ) on Earth's surface ARE affected by the effect, but there are a lot of other dynamics also influencing 'local' phenomena. This is where Lindzen went off the rails.
As he's a 'meteorologist ( a very good one on all accounts ), and not a 'climatologist', he would not have the specialized knowledge of those who pushed back against his 'childlike' global warming hypothesis ( he just didn't know what he didn't know ).